A little shadow patch ...

[Nikolas Arend]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:

>On 11/12/04 00:43, Nikolas Arend wrote:
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>>Olivier Fourdan wrote:
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>>>Every people who sends patch knows that, sometimes patches get accepted
>>>sometimes not... I am not taking it mainstream, but someone else may
>>>like it and use it.
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>>Agreed. But I find it hard to maintain a specific feature just for yourself.
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>hey, it's olivier's window manager, and, just as importantly, his project.
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>i may not agree 100% with the idea of keeping options out of the GUI[1],
>and i can argue all i want, but the bottom line is that, if olivier wants
>it in the WM (or doesn't want it), then it'll go in (or it won't).
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I agree and would not dare to do otherwise. I guess I pointed that out 
more than once.
But when that would prevent discussions about whatever topic, I'm off.

>it occurs to me that you may have actually been talking about the patch
>writer maintaining the feature for himself.  actually, that's not all
>that hard, as long as you stick with the CVS version of the software.
>i wrote a patch to add a per-conversation auto-response disabler button
>for gaim a couple years ago, and it was rejected.  i liked it, so i kept
>it in my CVS tree and updated and compiled off that.  sure, every now
>and then there were conflicts, but never more than 10 minutes of work
>each time.  of course, eventually i dropped it after about a yearish,
>but mainly because they implemented a more sane way of deciding when
>to automatically disable the auto-response.  anyway, i digress (as
>usual).
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Yeah well, actually your right, but... my devel/ directory is full of 
stuff I'd like to finish ;-)

Nick.