Bill Davidsen wrote: > Robert Kaiser wrote: >> Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >>> It's a fine line to walk when lobbying for change -- you have to push >>> hard enough, but not too hard, give credit, but not too much credit, >>> and >>> so forth. >> >> Right, but when people place you as the destructor of SeaMonkey, and >> tell you that your only goal is to fight off users of the feature you >> just helped to survive at all, then they put it way over the top. >> >> Most people probably don't realize that e.g. without my work on them, >> SeaMonkey 2.0 wouldn't have progress windows at all. The old ones >> didn't work with the new download manager backend to which we were >> switching in any case. Nobody else volunteered to write new progress >> windows that work with the new one, so I did, and e.g. not having >> other icons available, I just reused the ones we already had in use >> in the newly written download manager window. >> >> In any case, those people have driven me away enough that I won't >> work on any improvements of the progress windows, even though I had a >> few such improvements, including better icons, in work. >> > In my opinion you have over-solved the problem already, and I mean > that in a good way. You have done more than the minimum work to make > it useful, taken pride in your creation, etc. If the pride of > workmanship doesn't justify the time to improve further, don't. > > If you're looking for appreciation, it's in the dictionary, between > apathy and asinine. > To me it is you who wants to be noticed and you are an expert in what? And you do so much for the SM 2 cause.
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