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Subject: Re: Shipping a cursor theme with KDE
From: Tom Albers <tomalbers () kde ! nl>
Date: 2007-12-28 17:09:18
Message-ID: 5219324.QSXStQzQMz () kde ! nl
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Op Friday 28 December 2007 17:48 schreef u:
> It's actually not necessary to discuss an exception. As I pointed out already
> artwork just like documentation is _not_ subject to a freeze.
I don't agree. It should behave with respect to the release plan. We are in a very deep feature freeze, \
so no new features. A freeze has a reason. We want focus on bugs, and don't want to introduce new code \
which can break in an _unexpected_ way the current code. I highlight unexpected, because that's \
important. Everyone can assure me there won't be any side-effects, but the unexpected part is ... well \
that you did not think of it before.
> There are only
> two exceptions:
There are more raised in this thread. For example that there has been no chance at all for user _or_ \
developer feedback on a new team. I've not yet seen any evidence it has been tested on a larger scale, \
let alone tested with different color scheme's, resolutions, background and other weird combinations.
Another argument is that it sets a wrong example. We have some excellent games in playground which love \
to go back into games. There is nothing which can break - except the app itself - due to that, non? We \
should allow that as well then.
> 1.) of course core parts of the look and feel shouldn't be drastically changed
> unless they are still missing. This is especially important if they have been
> included in screenshots of the documentation.
>
> 2.) changes of the artwork must not have a negative impact on the stability
> and must not result in technical bugs.
>
> Item 1.) is not an issue here given that a set of default cursors for Oxygen
> has been missing and given that cursors never get included with screenshots.
> So that only leaves item 2.) :
No, documentation was just part of the reason in 1. I still answer the first part of 1 with 'yes'. Not \
being available is something i don't understand, I see a mouse cursor, although not oxygen, that's not \
relevant to me.
> While artwork usually doesn't have any impact
> on the stability of the system I could imagine that it might be different
> with cursors:
I don't question there capabilities, but we have had some discussions about the oxygen theme on this \
list, let's not run into the option where we have such discussions again about a cursor theme, with the \
addition of a final tag after a few days.
The release-team has made a schedule with different points in time where it gets tested. Bypassing that \
is not a good thing. We will have a tricky first release probably, so why add another variable to it?
BTW, I have not seen much support for adding the cursor theme here or on the release-team mailinglist.
Toma
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