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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Support for animated icons (on mouseover)
From:       Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date:       2002-01-17 13:31:58
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On Thursday January 17, 2002 05:22, Alexander Kellett wrote:
> How about helping then?

I am helping, by pointing out that defaulting this on is a mistake.

If you count helping only as adding features, then those who want a leaner 
default desktop can never help, by definition.

> Plenty of people moan about new features but for most coders thats
> just what they enjoy doing.  Release "dudes" of course help to make sure
> that feature-bloat doesn't hurt releases.

This isn't even a feature... it's purely ornamental.

> Please, get real, this is free software, if a coder dislikes doing
> optimisations its probably a good sign that they should be working on
> features instead, or loose the coder fullstop, you decide. All coders
> that I know get the urge every once in a while.

I'm not saying the patch shouldn't go in, I'm saying the behavior 
shouldn't be defaulted on.

> Oh, and optimisation of KDE in general is a damn difficult task too.

Especially when people are actively slowing it down like this.

-- 
Neil Stevens
neil@qualityassistant.com

Don't think of a bug as a problem.  Think of it as a call to action.
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