Re: difficulties

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 05:55:56PM +0200, Sam Halliday wrote:
> 
> its really not that big of a deal, but it is kind of annoying that
> simple expansions like this are never taken advantage of, and most
> development effort seems to be put into overkilled API and configuration
> options
> 

You have every right to request a feature. You have no right to be annoyed
because your pet feature hasn't been added in the 7 days since you requested
it (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85093).

The reason I'm reacting so strongly here is because Glynn Foster busted his
ass, with little help, to get gfloppy and the rest of the gnome-utils package
into shape for the GNOME 2 release. Your help, whether in the form of code or
just helpful criticism from a user's perspective, would have been a valuable
contribution, but it wasn't there until a week ago, when the freeze made your
feature request impossible for the 2.0 release. (There were a number of other
people who were actively involved in testing apps and making recommendations,
which Glynn did a great job of incorporating into the final product.)

At this point, perhaps your annoyance is best directed at yourself, not at the
developers for not somehow reading your mind.

Cheers,

John