Laszlo Gerencser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jan Schaumann wrote:
> > I said, I have not encountered any problems > > that would require me to patch the source. If there are serious bugs > > and patches are available, then, sure, they should be included. But > > it's always (as especially seen on this list) the dicussion of "Bug vs. > > Feature". > > As I wrote a few weeks (months?) ago, there ARE bugs in bb. The > workspace change crash IS a bug. (I hope nobody consider it as a > feature). If you don't use slowly redrawing apps and/or don't change > workspaces quickly, this may never happen on your system. JFTR: It doesn't occur on my system, no matter how fast I switch desktops or what apps I have running. > But there > are many people on this list (including myself) who had this kind of > chrash, dumping bb core. This is a fact. I don't want to discuss it > more, everyone can access the list archive and find details on it. Yes, this is a bug. It needs to be fixed. I don't know if it's a blackbox or bbkeys bug, since I have not followed the discussion. > It is clearly a development task to address these problems. > Continuous development is a vital point of any kind of software. Agreed. > Don't misunderstand me, I do not need additional features, I even do > not use patches for bb. But I would like to see at least a minimal > development effort to make bb better. (Sorry, I do not have any C++ > knowledge. Maybe I'll learn this language in the future.) Well, maybe you should. Open Source always offers you the possibility of scratching your itch. That's the greatest thing about it - on the other hand, nobody can come along and say "I can't do it, but I demand others do it"[1]. > I can't belive that anybody will claim here that the deveolpment of bb > is not wanted anymore. We can live with the current (great) release, > but I'm sure, everybody would be happy to be able to install a new > version. Only if the new version offers features I'm missing or fixes bugs I'm encountering. Why else would I install a new version? Just b/c it's new? I do not mean that BB is perfect and should not be touched again, ever. What I _do_ mean, is that it's tricky to determine the actual bugs and separate them from what people *consider* bugs, b/c they are not used to the way BB works, or b/c they have certain expectations towards a windowmanager, that would be better suited for a Desktop Environment. -Jan [1] grossly paraphrasing and not intended as bait -- http://www.netmeister.org http://guinness.cs.stevens-tech.edu/~jschauma/
