On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 20:47 +0000, Dave Howorth wrote: > There's obviously a problem with FOSS software that Windows doesn't > suffer from. Er... big deal. There are bugs in IE (even v7, AIUI) that people want fixed that almost certainly never will be (e.g. respecting Content-Type HTTP headers.). You could investigate that and file bug reports all you wanted with no effect. I think that affects more people than this bug.
> this bug has apparently been recorded for nearly a year at a minimum Sorry, what do you base this on? The firefox bug ( https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=162673 ) is specific to firefox, not all the other applications listed by Kai, nor does it even mention them. Regardless, if this bug was important to someone they would have made more effort to fix it or get it fixed. The point is that it can be fixed and most likely will be should it become important in that way. Does it affect you? If so, investigate and fix it or file bug reports. I think this may be an imlib limitation: http://wolfpack.twu.net/docs/Imlib/tutorial.html says "Imlib can rescale an image to any size (limit 32767 x 32767 pixels). This means small icons can be expanded in size via Imlib, or large images reduced to small thumbnails with a single function call." If so, once the bug is fixed in imlib or an alternative library substituted, many of the dependent apps will no longer suffer from the problem (some will have made assumptions based on imlib's limitations). Further, the bug would occur in windows apps that use imlib. Free software and closed source deal with such problems in different ways, so making such comparisons is not sensible unless you have specific requirements dependent on a particular feature at a particular time. It is spurious to draw a general conclusion about the two in terms of one being "buggier" than the other, so I hope you and those reading what you've written won't do that. I believe each has its strengths and weaknesses and so each case should be assessed thoughtfully. It may be that a curious student or other hacker will isolate and fix the problem for the challenge. It may be a company whose client is affected by the problem deals with it. But to most people who use the system day-to-day with normal sized images, does it matter? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
