Re: Is libgtop abandoned?

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 05:04:36PM +0100, Bastien R. Nocera wrote:
> > 
> > I wanna make sure the distinctions are clear. You removed
> > *gstripchart*, which was no longer being included in the package
> > anyway. But did you also remove *stripchart*, which was its more
> > recent 1.4.x replacement? John Kodis had been pretty actively
> > maintaining that one.
> 
> I was pretty sure I did say I would remove it, but reading my previous
> mails, it seems not. No offense Kodis, but it seems that from what I've
> gathered on IRC and my own experience 1) nobody uses stripchart 2) the
> UI is not as per the Gnome guidelines (no menus, nothing).
> 
> It's the only app that was left in the gnome-utils that used libgtop
> (gdiskfree is not portable to gnome2 because of the missing GtkDial, and
> procman includes these features), and the applet library (gcolorsel's
> applet code was removed a while ago, and gcolorsel is to be punted,
> maybe, see other mail).
> 
> If John Kodis feels really strongly about and can tell that he will fix
> stripchart UI-wise, we can still revive it. Otherwise it will have to
> move to its own module.

My one vote is just an anecdote, but I use it. :-)

And as someone who works regularly and a lot with the gnome-utils
package, I can say that John has done what maintainers are supposed to
do over time - kept up with bugzilla, fixed bugs, kept docs up to
date. No rot here. He should get significant GNOME karma points for
that, which in my opinion should earn him a chance to port it to GNOME
2 if he wants to do that.

Cheers,
-- 
John Fleck
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