Re: background/font capplets

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 13 Mar 2002, Luis Villa wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 10:26, jacob berkman wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 08:36, Luis Villa wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 23:38, Seth Nickell wrote:
> > > > Because the rewrite was done more than a month and a half ago.
> > > 
> > > I didn't really intend to get myself involved in what could turn into
> > > something nasty :/ but from the perspective of releasing and testing it
> > > doesn't matter when it was written, only when it was released to
> > > testers.
> > 
> > the rationale is at the beginning of the thread.
> > 
> > basically havoc saying, the bg crapplet sucks and we have this better
> > one, why are we shooting ourselves in the foot by not using it?
> 
> Yeah, except it only sucks from a UI perspective. It works, and is
> basically bug-free, which (I guarantee) is more than we can say for
> anything that is a complete rewrite at this point. The idea of
> introducing a large new crop of bugs^H^H^H^Hfeatures at this point is
> extremely bothersome to me. Obviously, I can't stop anyone, and I do
> like the idea of making the UI suck less, but I really don't like the
> precedent of taking proven, working code out and putting new, untested
> code in at this very late point in the release process, no matter how
> sucky the UI is, as long as it works (which, AFAICT it does, despite the
> suckiness.)

I'm not sure its so bug-free. It seems to get confused easily, showing the 
wrong state in the UI and/or the preferences. 

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