about symbolic links on Desktop

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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On 6/1/2006 4:55 PM, nusret wrote:
> --- "Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On 6/1/2006 3:19 PM, nusret wrote:
>>
>>> By the way, you shouldn't require us to first go
>>> elsewhere (Xubuntu forums, etc.) : by hearing
>> about
>>> the problems people experience, you'll have a
>> better
>>> picture of what's going on around.
>> Sorry, I was more referring here to actual bug
>> reports.  If something's
>> crashing on Xubuntu's patched version of whatever, I
>> don't really want
>> to hear about it.  I don't know the details of the
>> version they're
>> using.  While we're in the beta cycle, I'm fixing
>> bugs as I see them, so
>> it wastes my time to hear about bugs unless people
>> have tested against
>> current SVN trunk.
> 
> I don't know what's the percentage of users who always
> use latest SVN trunk, but never mind. It's your call
> how you investigate the bugs/features. To me, this
> basically means "never file a bug report" :). As a
> well-behaved user, I will never do.

Well, it's just a matter of my free time.  I've been really busy lately,
and if I can't identify the cause of a bug pretty quickly, I tend to put
it aside and it sits for a while.  I believe somewhere in this thread
someone (you?) said something about a crash when creating symlinks.  I
do remember someone mentioning that a couple weeks ago, and I can't
reproduce it on the current SVN trunk.  Does that mean I fixed it as a
side-effect of fixing a different bug?  I don't know.  And I won't know
unless someone who currently has the problem updates to SVN trunk and
tells me if they still see the problem.  Otherwise there's very little
chance I'll be able to fix it (or will even have the time to spend looking).

> But after all, we don't know for sure that it's
> Xubuntu, right?

No, but why should/how can I support other people's custom
distributions, especially when I don't know what version it's based off
of, or what patches have been applied?

> Anyway, as I said, what to take into consideration
> during development is completely you call and I
> respect that. Unfortunately there is no way around,
> you'll hear from time to time such things, just as we
> have to live with your design decisions even when we
> liked it otherwise :).

True.  But I'm just pointing out how you can be most useful in testing
and development.  If you aren't willing to go to the extra work, that's
fine; I respect your choice and the level of involvement you want to put in.

> But overall, it's really a good and balanced desktop
> compared to its alternatives. Congratulations for your
> successful efforts!

Thanks!

	-brian

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