Bump......? Any core devs able to comment pls?

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Neil <neildev...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Have looked some more at the various patches in the bugzilla list.
>
> After extra scrutiny of Luidnel's patch (9b6c9e1), I now realise that this
> is the very patch where Michael Natterer comments at the top that he has
> altered it so as to not "spit messages", but the patch then makes iwarp.c
> do precisely that. I am now suspecting that iwarp.c got missed while the
> patch was being edited... :-)  Correct?
>
> In comment 26 (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155733#c26),
> Michael says that gimpressionist *should* warn, as it's interactive-only.
> But what does interactive-only mean? I initially took it to mean that if
> you tried to "repeat" it would bring back up the dialog box. Gimpressionist
> doesn't do that though - it simply reapplies the same effect to a new
> selection each time you "repeat". In contrast, iwarp would fit my concept
> of what "interactive-only" means, as if you try to "repeat", it *does*
> bring up the dialog box, so it seems that it really can't ever function
> without a dialog box.
>
> I've also noticed that a whole bunch of plugins do issue a g_message()
> before they bail out (including I think all of the ones patched by Bill
> Skaggs).
>
> So... I could use some guidance from core devs here (i.e. the people
> who'll be accepting/rejecting any patches). My own preference would
> certainly be for all plugins to issue a warning (in the form of a
> g_message() call or even a dialog) if they are about to do nothing because
> _mask_intersect() returns false. But if there is some argument against this
> we should patch the rest to stop doing it for consistency.
>
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