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[Enrico Tröger]

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:45:12 -0800, "Brian J. Tarricone"
<bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:

> Enrico Tröger wrote:
> 
> > If so, the requested feature should be quite easy to add. Add a
> > spinbutton in the preferences dialog to define the timeout between
> > changing the image and we need a timer(e.g. g_timeout_add()) which
> > calls then the routine to change background. Maybe I'm missing
> > something because I didn't look at the code at all but I guess it
> > could be as easy as this.
> 
> Perhaps I should start a "Brian's Laws of Software Development":
> 
> 1.  Don't make claims as to how easy or hard it is to add a feature
> to a codebase you know nothing about.
I'm sorry, it wasn't my intention to make you angry :(. You are right,
I should have had a look at the code before I starting to talk. Anyway,
I just wanted to help.

> There's also a question of whether or not I even *want* this feature
> in xfdesktop.  As demonstrated, it's possible to do it outside of 
> xfdesktop, and I'm not sure this is a feature that's commonly-used 
I agree, that's what I meant not sure whether it is useful.

Regards,
Enrico

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