Re: NLD10 and GNOME

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

Hi,

On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 12:09 -0500, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> 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.

Well, to be fair, it's not like they can just look at the code and know
this. ;)

I don't think such a kneejerk reaction is so overboard judging from a
single mockup and a fuzzy freeze frame in a video.

Joe