Re: NLD10 and GNOME

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Rodney Dawes wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 17:43 +0100, Kjartan Maraas wrote:
> > In a sense, but a theme is more self-contained and wouldn't need review
> > in full the samme way that an extension to the panel menu code would.
>
> It's not an extension to the panel menu code. It's not even a patch.
> It's a completely separate applet. This is in fact, in no way different
> than a theme engine in terms of integrating it upstream, into a larger
> conglomerate package. Why do people keep assuming every change someone
> does, is a patch? There are much better ways to do a lot of this stuff,
> than patches, with the architecture we have.

glad to hear it - perhaps some of us were overreacting a bit :)

wrt to yer blog post regarding code drops at release time,  I hope you 
and Novell can be persuaded to do more development in the open just for 
the sake of fairness (as we currently have a level playing field with 
the vast majority of Gnome software being done in the open). No one 
would complain if a small company or some individuals did stuff secretly 
but a big company like Novell should set a good example here. Profit 
from open source has always centered around support and services rather 
than a panel applet or two so I doubt you will lose anything and its 
certainly not worth the loss of good community relations.

(btw big thank you for XGL - Im using it now and it rocks way better 
than OS/X and vista)

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Mr Jamie McCracken
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