Re: hard code freeze break request for eog

[Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas broadpark no>]

lø., 20.09.2008 kl. 19.05 +0300, skrev Claudio Saavedra:
> El sáb, 20-09-2008 a las 11:10 -0400, Luis Villa escribió:
> > I'll take a wager of one pint (beer or ice cream) that this does not
> > in fact get fixed the right way by the next GUADEC. Sorry, but
> > experience shows that half-assed fixes stay in the codebase forever
> > because fixing it the right way becomes a much lower priority once the
> > half-assed fix is in place...
> 
> FYI, eog not being able to set a remote image as wallpaper is a
> limitation that has been there for way a long time. The regression
> introduced with the gio migration is that this propagated to local
> images. *This is the bug to be fixed here*.
> 
> eog saving locally a remote image to allow proper wallpaper setting can
> be considered a different *enhancement*, that I wouldn't have dared to
> introduce less than two weeks before the major release (that is, when
> this limitation came to our attention), even if I had had the time to
> code it promptly.
> 
> If you are so concerned about our half-assed work, feel free to, at
> least, file a bug about this missing feature. You can be sure that I
> appreciate eog enough to implement this, but this was not the right time
> to do it, bad luck, so it goes. That's why we have a schedule.
> 
Approval 2 of 2.

I'll hold you to your word to ease Luis' sleep :-)

Cheers
Kjartan