Re: Bugs, Blame, Bogosity

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hi Gregory,

On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Gregory Merchan wrote:

> You may be aware that the status dock is not working in GNOME 2.0 and did
> not work reliably in 1.4.  A number of bug reports have been filed against
> window managers, docklet-using applications, and the status dock itself.
> Lately, despite that the status dock has been reported not to work with
> other window managers, the reports have been reassigned to sawfish; another
> one was reassigned moments before this email.

	I assume you're talking about #76360 being marked a dup of
#62650 ... If you look at #76360 and specifically the comment - "This
is a duplicate of #62652" - how else would you expect me to proceed ?

<snip/>

> The bug in the protocol has been allowed to survive and various mutant
> strains have descended from it. In that most remarkable manner of bugs,
> the newer strains have served to protect the queen. In a turn probably
> never witnessed in the biological world, the newest strain seems to have
> infected the only predator of the bugs; without swift action it will not
> be long before this unbalanced ecosystem collapses.

	Havoc sent out a rather shorter mail with regards this that I
wholeheartedly agreed with

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2002-March/msg00587.html

	I have had absolutely zero interest in looking at 'fixing' the
status dock in the GNOME 2.0 panel, purely because of the fact that
there is no agreed spec. And I would nearly go so far as to say that
until there is an agreed upon spec, we should have *no* status dock
support ...

Good Luck,
Mark.