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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Stuff I'm working on
From:       Carsten Burghardt <cb () magic-shop ! de>
Date:       2002-09-10 21:03:15
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On Tuesday 10 September 2002 21:45, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> kmail needs attention payed to its UI. based on past discussion of things
> on the kmail list such as the multiple methods of handling attachments (i
> count no less than 16 possible combinations, based on two sets of 4 options
> that are set in two completely different areas of the UI!), i have
> discovered that the current kmail developers are unable to grasp the need
> for such changes and are unwilling to allow them to occur.

Wow, that was hard. As long as I remember you can always check in patches if 
they're resonable and the head branch is not currently in a feature freeze. 
Or did I miss something? I always got helpful critics for my patches.

> and that's cool. i'm not the maintainer. i humbly and quietly bow to their
> wishes, insight and desires. no matter how wrong they are.
>
> but now there is a branch where i can explore the many needed UI changes
> with a fairly free hand. i can not do this in HEAD even if i wanted to,
> which i don't because i find fighting to get patches into HEAD KMail
> tiresome. i have the stomach and energy for about one KMail patch per
> release given the struggle it is to put even the most trivial of items into
> HEAD.
>
> if the HEAD maintainers like the UI changes (which i hope they will) then
> they can be ported over. if not, they can stay in the branch. at least i
> get to do what needs to get done SOMEWHERE.

-- 
Regards,

Carsten Burghardt
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