RE: is metacity a taboo ?

["Dan Mann" <daniel_b_mann hotmail com>]

Could this patch ever just be included in a gnome-desktop release?

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: desktop-devel-list-admin gnome org
[mailto:desktop-devel-list-admin gnome org] On Behalf Of Luis Villa
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 8:52 AM
To: Sander Vesik
Cc: John Fleck; Calum Benson; GNOME Desktop List; gnome-doc-list
Subject: Re: is metacity a taboo ?


On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 15:38, Sander Vesik wrote:
> John Fleck wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 10:42, Calum Benson wrote:
> > 
> >>On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 19:05, nazeman wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hello
> >>>
> >>>Can Gnome users have,please, the wireframe support for metacity
> >>>
> >>>in the (good) admin guide i found "To Reduce CPU Usage by Turning 
> >>>On Wireframe Mode" for Metacity but this feature doesn't work.
> >>
> >>This feature is currently only implemented in Sun's release of GNOME

> >>AFAIK.  If you can recompile metacity, you'll find the patch you 
> >>need to make it work in GNOME CVS: 
> >>sun-patches/metacity/438-95273-s.diff.
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Would it be possible for the admin guide section to make note of the

> > fact that this feature is Sun-specific?
> > 
> 
> I guess we might then just aswell point people at the patch that 
> implements
> it so that if they have problem with not having it they can find
somebody 
> who can apply the patch and give them a new version... The patch is
after 
> all not Sun specific.

You're not seriously suggesting our documentation have references to
patches, are you?

Luis

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