Bug#417998: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#417998: xfce4-panel: gnome-system-monitor as panel right-click entry

[Stefan Ott]

Hi

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 10:04:13PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:

> i'm not suggesting xfce do things windows-like just to be
> windows-like, but for those cases when it makes logical sense.
> 
> it is the responsibility of the debian pacakge maintainer to be the
> liaison between myself, joe user, and the upstream developer.  i am
> not involved in xfce development and don't care to take on the burden
> of subscribing to the -dev mailing list to deal with one issue.

Without being completely uptodate on the issue, I understand this is
about a feature request. Now while I understand your desire to have a
single point for reporting all your debian-related issues, I hope you
will agree that it's usually not the package maintainer's job to add
new (major) features to software. Thus, even if the packager could
forward your request upstream, I would strongly suggest taking the
direct approach and reporting the request on the Xfce goodies bug
tracker or directly to the upstream developer. This will save you the
trouble of dealing with package maintainers who don't share your opinion
while allowing us to focus on what we're best at - packaging software.
Plus you will gain the advantage of dealing directly with the person
responsible for the software, somebody who knows how much works is going
to be required to implement your idea and whether it corresponds to the
Xfce philosophy instead of being stuck in ideological discussions we're
not neccessarily qualified for in the first place.

On a sort-of-related note, my experience tells me that feature requests
submitted via the debian bugtracker have a tendency to grow quite old ;)

In case my statements completely miss the point, please just ignore
them.

Regards
-- 
Stefan Ott
http://www.ottwerk.net/

"On passe presque toute sa vie déguisé en adulte." -- Monique Corriveau
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