WTF? Someone didn't eat their wheaties this morning...
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 09:26:11 +0200 Bradley T Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So, boys and girls, this kind of pissed me off. If you don't want your > > > code forked, change your fucking license. If you're jealous because > > > openbox took your users, code some fucking features. And how about a > > > little 'thank you' for all the fucking bugs that xor fixes and they > > > make it into the changlog as '--shaleh'? Get a fucking life. > > > > OK, talking is seriously a little immature here. I never talked shit > > about blackbox. I was fixing bugs in it right up till the 0.65 > > release. So don't be saying that I'm stealing all YOUR work. Your > > window manager works half decent cuz of shit i was fixing every day. > > So, apparently I need to watch my mouth... > > > Hmm, borders for textures. Who's stealing who's ideas? I don't care > > that you want to do that. I think we should make our styles match. But > > that probably shows the difference between our approach and yours. I > > predict your style extensions will be made deliberately so that > > Openbox can't use them even tho it already has the same extension. > > First off, for what it is worth, this border in textures code was something > posted to the blackbox feature request page at sourceforge: > >http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=613119&group_id=40696&atid=428683 > > Second, this made lots of sense while I was working on the new menus that > will go into the new libbt that shaleh and I are working on. Since I have > made each menu use only a single window, I decided to make my life a > little easier by drawing borders in the texture code, instead of doing it > all by hand in the exposeEvent handler (like i did in moving_target*). > > Third, the style stuff may or may not change, I don't know. As shaleh and > I work on things, we may decide to revise the look slightly (as I have > done with the menus). If this means a few changes to the style syntax, > then so be it. > > > > [23:16] (@nyz) last i looked, it was a hack of blackbox > > > [23:16] (@nyz) his change logs say stuff like "reforked from the > > > 0.65.0 release" > > > > Since when does having common code make it a HACK? Openbox has taken > > hacks in blackbox and made them work properly. Sticky windows anyone? > > Yes, it was reforked from 0.65. I put a lot of time into helping make > > the 0.65 release stable etc etc, and I readded every feature Openbox > > had already done, to the new 0.65 code base. Wow, obviously a complete > > ugly hack then. Bullshit. > > Well, I don't really have any defense to the things I said, so the only > thing I can do is apologize. Next time, I will do my best to make > knowledgable and thought out comments. > > > If you don't like someone using your _open sourced_ window manager to > > make something they like better..why is it open source? Change your > > license and stop complaining. Oh, most of the recent changes in CVS > > are looking pretty damn close the code in Openbox 2. So this bitching > > seems quite out of line. > > I don't mind if people decide to change things. What I do mind is spending > weeks preparing for a release after changing/revising/rewriting massive > amounts of code, and then once it's released someone just decides to scoop > it up and readd their changes. > > Granted, the license allows it. But, it doesn't mean that I have to like > it. But just because I get a bit discouraged/disheartened by doesn't mean > I'm going to change the license, shutdown CVS and then start demanding > download fees. > > > Perhaps we could all grow up a little here. Stop fighting over.. (what > > are we fighting over again? I dont see a point to any of this.) > > As I mentioned above, this started because of me being a bit annoyed over > some of the things that have been happening lately. You recall that I > sent you mail this weekend regarding text on the openbox webpage, correct? > At first, it did piss me off a bit to see "Openbox was previously known as > Blackbox", but I didn't blow up and I sent you mail asking you to change > it. You did, and I'm glad. > > However, I was a bit quick to shoot off my mouth. I do apologize about > that. > > > Bye. > > xOr > > -- > Bradley T. Hughes - bhughes at trolltech.com > Trolltech AS - Waldemar Thranes gt. 98 N-0175 Oslo, Norway > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html > Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] List archives: http://asgardsrealm.net/lurker/splash/index.html Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
