Jerry Balzano wrote:
On Apr 13, 2005, at 6:48 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
btw - BZ 2138 (can't run apps by double-click) is an Enhancement request - since the docs don't claim it should be possible, I couldn't find any excuse to make it a "bug" rather than an enhancement request; that may be another reason it hasn't been fixed yet.
Given the universality of the double-click-document-lauch-application paradigm, I'd say that the reason it's not in the docs is that **it is generally assumed to hold true**. Surely we can think of many "obvious" characteristics that wouldn't be "in the docs" but would be taken as a bug if they didn't hold true. So I don't accept the "in the docs" as a criterion for bughood. (This is all the more true given the admittedly sketchy nature of the docs; why would there be any need e.g. for Dan Shafer to write an eBook on the IDE if the docs were in any sense comprehensive?)
I might have taken a different attitude now - but I was very new to Runrev at the time, and so a bit more tentative. Also, since the installation had NOT made the file association, there was an implication that it was not intended to allow that mode of starting.
While I'm at it, I also object to the "counsel-of-despair" attitude of not voting for bugs just because one hasn't reviewed all of bugzilla.
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Perhaps I'll be in the minority on this issue too, like I was on Dan reporting on "third party" products and plugins (Dan, you never addressed the "looking over D Shafer's shoulder" mindset that I would think you'd welcome on the part of potential readers; omitting third-party products that you use all the time would at best weaken this possibility and at worst mislead ... end parenthetical). But I thought I'd try nonetheless, both on this specific bug#2138 and on the general "get out the vote" aesthetic.
Not despairing yet, Jerry
Sorry, I guess I didn't express it well enough. There is no "despair" in how I feel about it - I really DO trust RR managers to make reasonable choices most of the time, and hence didn't feel a need to vote.
Not despairing at all, Alex.
P.S. but you convinced me I should cast my votes - will start doing that now.
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