On Wednesday 08 September 2004 18:18, David Faure wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 September 2004 20:17, Frans Englich wrote:
> > Easy solution: Remove the offending code.
>
> Yeah, sure, tell people porting KDE to other platforms to remove whatever
> they don't manage to port.
> Sorry, this doesn't make sense.

Well, _if_ the code wasn't valued high, it could be removed as a win-win(it 
wouldn't be removed because it was in interest for users but annoying to 
porters).

>
> > But perhaps people, and their
> > dogs, would die if this (wanna-be) transparency and shadows were removed?
>
> Yes - we usually remove the old solution only once the new one is in place,
> to avoid regressions. It doesn't make sense to regress "because in the
> future we'll have better". The future is not a guarantee, in a world of
> voluntary contributions.

Ok.


			Frans