On 29-May-2002 Kolbe Kegel wrote: > 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. >
The problem is so few people know X, real X not GTK or KDE. Most of the bugs we get are "I opened this thing and it acted weird". Brad was commenting a few days ago about how he was hoping two years later the bugs might get better. This is *NOT* meant to condescend. X is hard and telling why something happened is often a bit of wisdom and magic. We don't expect people to say "yeah your titlebar looks weird and here is the 8 line patch to fix it". It's nice when it happens though (-: Yeah it is a bit of a control issue. But more because it is the time Brad and I have to give so we have to allocate our time. Yeah, I think it is frivilous. Brad doesn't even use a mouse. So neither of us are good judges. I told someone once I never really make up my mind when they asked me for something in Blackbox. Might have been xOr. Adding a new feature can't happen right now due to the feature freeze. When the code opens up again maybe we can look at the issue again.
