xfdesktop woes

[Benedikt Meurer]

Olivier wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 23:49, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> 
>>And what I forget to mention: I really appreciate Brian's work on xfdesktop, 
>>esp. the multihead support is very nice (though there are without a doubt some 
>>small pieces of code that could be improved). I think Brian did a very good 
>>job, and I don't want to see him leaving the Xfce project.
> 
> Can you elaborate on this?

Brian said "if this is a problem, then.... well, then we have a problem", and 
I really worry about such sentences in such long discussions, since I have 
seen good developers leaving open source projects because of such "trivial 
personal difficulties" (compare to real life problems), for example Theo 
Deraadt and NetBSD.

Benedikt

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