i would never try to tell someone giving me awesome free stuff how to do what they do, but at some point when the beast has grown big enough, you have to let some other people help you fight it, even if they haven't been there as long and haven't been battle hardened per se. there are plenty of people who will use the feature and report bugs and maybe even fix them for you. i guess it's cool if you don't want to let blackbox out of your personal control at all or let it evolve beyond what you need it for, but using the "no silly unnecessary features" line sounds a little better than "i don't use it, so i won't know if it works or not" to me.
--kolbe Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >On 29-May-2002 Mr.X wrote: > > >>I'm not sure if this has already been discussed or not (maybe I missed >>it), but a feature that I've always loved from WindowMaker/Enlightenment >>is the ability to scroll the mouse-wheel over the root window (or even >>the toolbar maybe?) and change workspaces. It really grows on you. >>This doesn't seem like any kind of bloat, and I assume it would be >>fairly easy to implement, that's why I ask. Are there any plans for >>something like this? >> >> > >I have seen patches. In fact we talked about it this morning because >xor made a patch for it against cvs. > >I don't own a mouse wheel and neither does Brad. Our experience over the >last few years has shown that code we don't use is broken code. The click >focus code is a prime example. > >And yes this is just one more feature. It is always one more feature. But >that is not why we have chosen not to add the patch in. We are more concerned >over a hidden bug that goes unreported because no one with a mouse wheel tried >that weird thing that made it break (whatever that is). If you did report it, >neither of us could not reproduce it or even test it. > > >
