Re: hard code freeze break request for eog

[Claudio Saavedra <csaavedra gnome org>]

El sáb, 20-09-2008 a las 11:10 -0400, Luis Villa escribió:
> I'll take a wager of one pint (beer or ice cream) that this does not
> in fact get fixed the right way by the next GUADEC. Sorry, but
> experience shows that half-assed fixes stay in the codebase forever
> because fixing it the right way becomes a much lower priority once the
> half-assed fix is in place...

FYI, eog not being able to set a remote image as wallpaper is a
limitation that has been there for way a long time. The regression
introduced with the gio migration is that this propagated to local
images. *This is the bug to be fixed here*.

eog saving locally a remote image to allow proper wallpaper setting can
be considered a different *enhancement*, that I wouldn't have dared to
introduce less than two weeks before the major release (that is, when
this limitation came to our attention), even if I had had the time to
code it promptly.

If you are so concerned about our half-assed work, feel free to, at
least, file a bug about this missing feature. You can be sure that I
appreciate eog enough to implement this, but this was not the right time
to do it, bad luck, so it goes. That's why we have a schedule.

Claudio

ps: stripping out gnome-doc and gnome-i18n from the flaming.

> 
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 4:40 AM, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
> > Am Samstag, den 20.09.2008, 07:58 +0200 schrieb Claude Paroz:
> >> Even if it's VERY late in cycle, if it's a bug, it should be corrected.
> >> So 1 of 2 approval from gnome-i18n, on condition that vuntz share his
> >> ice cream with me.
> >>
> >> Claude
> >
> > r-t approval 1 of 2.
> >
> > andre
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