Re: Request for freeze break -- feature & string freeze for 2.14.x cycle

["Luis Villa" <luis villa gmail com>]

On 4/12/06, Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas broadpark no> wrote:
> ons, 12,.04.2006 kl. 10.38 -0600, skrev Elijah Newren:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Yeah, I suck.  I know alarm bells are going off and this looks pretty
> > bad.  However, the focus behavior for programs launched from a
> > terminal unfortunately appears to be really badly hated (yes, this
> > only affects users using a terminal).  Ubuntu has already patched it
> > out (though I'm getting lots of strange bug reports about Ubuntu and
> > focus which people report go away with our tarballs, making me think
> > there's something amiss in their patches), and the bug is marked as an
> > FC5-updates blocker.  So, I'm guessing they'll take the patch (or hack
> > something else together) even if this isn't approved.  I'm not aware
> > of the situation in other distros but those are the big two shipping
> > with 2.14 right now that I know of.
> >
> > So, I'd like to apply Ron Yorston's patch in bug 326159 to make a
> > focus_new_windows option, which simultaneously changes the default
> > behavior back to what it was in 2.12.  (I don't feel reverting the
> > default without adding the option isn't a good idea; there's no need
> > to punch the users in the face who have been requesting 'strict' focus
> > options for years and finally saw this bug fixed...it'd just be too
> > cruel)
> >
> > Alternative ideas welcome.  I know this really, really sucks, and I
> > should be publicly whipped, but it seemed to be worth bringing up for
> > your consideration as I think not taking this is going to cause more
> > pain and bugs than breaking the freeze.
> >
> 1/2 from me. I agree with the suckiness of the timing and all, but I
> think it's worth it.

After talking with Elijah a bit off-list, yes, I'd like to see this go in- 2/2.

Luis