[Desktop_architects] Printing dialog and GNOME

[Christian F.K. Schaller]

Hi Linus,
So I added your patches to bugzilla this weekend, in an attempt to be
constructive on my own part also. So far two of them are merged and
based on the discussion I see that a 3rd one will probably go in today.

If you are interested the tracker bug is here:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408898

In regards to Devil's pie I didn't link it as an example of something
that did exactly what you wanted, I linked it to show that there where 
tools for doing further customizing of components in GNOME. My feeling
was that you where extrapolating from your one missing feature that
GNOME offered no configurable features. As a sidenote the patches seems
to be going into Metacity, but there is still some debate whether to
activate them in the main prefs gui, one suggestion was to add these GUI
options to Devil's pie instead of to the basic prefs tool while others
say that maybe we should look through all the options for metacity
currently only available through gconf-edit and revamp the gui to make
them more easily accessible.

Christian

On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 10:12 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> > 
> > So Linus, where can we find the patch so that we can all share the
> > enthusiasm?
> > 
> > I couldn't find it in either metacity mailing lists or bugzilla.
> 
> I sent them to the gnomecc list (the changes to let control center enable 
> it were bigger than the changes to the metacity ones, but more 
> importantly, control-center actually had a mailing list address in its 
> README).
> 
> The metacity patches I also sent to maintainers that I tried to google 
> for, because there isn't even any submission address in the sources that I 
> could find.
> 
> Of course, the gnomecc mailing list is "by members only", so I don't know 
> if the patches ever got accepted by the moderator. 
> 
> Quite frankly, I think it's interesting how (a) no developer contacts were 
> listed and (b) the one that did list it doesn't even accept email from 
> outside.
> 
> I'm attaching a tar-ball of the patches since you seem to know *what* the 
> mailing lists are and may even be subscribed. This tar-ball contains
> 
> 	src/metacity-2.17.5/0001-Clean-up-double-middle-right-click-frame-action.patch
> 	src/metacity-2.17.5/0002-Add-lower-and-menu-to-title-bar-action-events.patch
> 	src/metacity-2.17.5/0003-Add-the-prefs.c-variables-for-middle-and-right-click-actions.patch
> 	src/metacity-2.17.5/0004-Allow-actually-changing-preferences-for-middle-and-right-click.patch
> 	src/metacity-2.17.5/0005-Fix-some-obvious-and-harmless-cut-and-paste-errors.patch
> 	src/control-center-2.17.5/0001-Add-support-for-new-titlebar-actions.patch
> 	src/control-center-2.17.5/0002-gnome-window-properties-learn-about-mouse-actions.patch
> 
> which should be obvious enough ;)
> 
> Feel free to send them forward to the right people (and maybe give hints 
> to them that if you have a README file that says "REPORTING BUGS AND 
> SUBMITTING PATCHES", it might be good to actually give an email to send 
> things to, instead of saying "Send me mail" with no email address actually 
> ever mentioned!)
> 
> I dislike bugzilla in general, but it's *especially* useless since I'm not 
> really interested in signing up for yet another account.
> 
> 			Linus
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