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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] Ksplash code and image
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2002-11-05 21:17:04
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Stephan Binner wrote:
 > On Tuesday 05 November 2002 21:00, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
 >
 >
 >>> Believe it or not, artists rely on this historic "leftover"
 >>> (since KDE
 >>
 >> So, it was done wrong to start with and so it will never be fixed?
 >
 >
 > It was at some point changed to something "wrong". It will maybe
 > fixed some day as part of a more major change (when there are
 > more/less item or ksplash is totally rewritten, think of animation).
 > I only object to change it now when there is no real need for it
 > while breaking screens/creating trouble.
 >
 >
 >>> It's a decision between your images (which likely never will
 >>> become default
 >>
 >> Do you mean that the splash for 3.1RC2 won't be the default for the
 >>  release?
 >
 > Sometimes I wonder what people interpret in my sentences.

Yes, I did not understand your sentence.  You stated that "my images"
(as opposed to the regular spacing) which are the current default would
(likely) never "become default"

 > I'm not aware that it will be changed for the final. In opposite to
 > you I say that there is no "spacing problems with icons".

They are not regularly spaced, which I will go into in detail later.

 > Only with your image which wants other rules.
 >
Evenly spaced is not compatible with code that is based irregularly
spaced (or is the irregularly spacing based on the illogical code?).

 >> you miss the point, but I will look at the other splash screens
 >> first.
 >
 > You miss it, you don't tell a good reason why this should be changed.
 >
 >
Because they are not evenly spaced.  Because the current code is totally
illogical.  To an engineer, that is sufficient reason.

But, I don't know if you are a software engineer or just a hacker, :-|

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JRT

 
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