Who wrote: > On Nov 22, 2007 9:35 PM, Cory K. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Nodoka is a unnessary fork of Murrine and shouldnt be used. Everything >> done in Nodoka can be done in Murrine or is just a couple of added lines >> of code. >> > > You might well be right, but it seems the Fedora guys thought a fork > was necessary: > >From http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/MartinSourada > The question asked why they forked Murrine > "At first I thought we'd use Clearlooks as an engine, but as time went > on, I got a completely different idea of how it should look and > Murrine engine was the closest. There were however too much > differences, like glossy style, that needed tweaking in the engine > itself. We decided that the changes are too much for us to expect that > they'd be accepted to Murrine. So, now I think I know that the > differences are too significant to merge with Murrine, we removed a > lot of original code and added a lot of ours, the engines went > different ways, if we'd try to merge, it would lead to losses in > rendering speed." > > Cimi (who wrote Murrine) used to read this list - Are you there Cimi - > do you have a comment on this? > > Who >
Cimi and I had a chat about it the other night on IRC. He asked me to help him with a letter to those guys about it because his English sometimes isn't so good. :) But I don't want to derail this topic I just wanted to throw out a FYI. :D -Cory \m/ -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
