Hi Adrian, On Fr 06 Feb 2015 10:48:26 CET, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 02/06/2015 08:42 AM, Manuel Gräber wrote:I am using caja desktop as the default desktop background on xfce4 (instead of xfdesktop). Since the patch I am no longer able to start the desktop backgroundoutside of MATE. Would it be possible to add an option to just start mate desktop regardless of of the running desktop envoronment?This is a good example why it's generally a bad idea to support as many use cases as possible. We added the fix for the use case with Caja to work on another desktop or window manager other than MATE. Adding this "fix" just broke another use case and after we fixed this, another user will come along and ask for their use case to be supported and so on and so forth. Honestly, I don't think we should add too much cruft here just to get any possible use case working. MATE is designed to work as a whole and was never intended to be used in Frankenstein setups. I am not telling users that they aren't allowed to use the software the way they want. I'm just saying it's simply impossible to honor every single use case without adding too much craft which in the end will result in more bugs. Adrian
I see it slightly different here. If people/users provide patches that integrate well (and upstream agrees with such patches), I'd be happy to support such "Frankenstein" efforts.
Some MATE components are quite handy on non-MATE desktop, I must admit. Greets, Mike -- DAS-NETZWERKTEAM mike gabriel, herweg 7, 24357 fleckeby fon: +49 (1520) 1976 148 GnuPG Key ID 0x25771B31 mail: mike.gabr...@das-netzwerkteam.de, http://das-netzwerkteam.de freeBusy: https://mail.das-netzwerkteam.de/freebusy/m.gabriel%40das-netzwerkteam.de.xfb
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