Re: Re: Reply To: Sodipodi / *nkscape...

Hello!

Christian Schaller kirjutas R, 27.02.2004 kell 21:26:
> others. It fork was not caused by a wish for fame and fortune, but by
> things like Lauris constant refusal to use new libraries, his insistence
> on doing things in non-standard way (like special GTK widgets which are

Well,
show me single, working and well-behaving (of the whole application)
standpoint patch, that was suggested, and was rejected because of
relying to external libraries.
There is none.
So the whole argument about library dependency/non-dependency 
is big no-issue for me.

> neither accessible or works with pixmaps themes). His desktop agnostic
> stance which in theory means work equally well everywhere, but in real
> life means work equally bad everywhere. And discussing Sodipodi issues

>From what I have read about *scape development, they have recently
having very desktop-agnostic goals in mind. If unsure, go read
recent *scape thread from Gnome-office list.

> with Lauris often feels like you are trying to communicate with the
> oracle in Delphi or some other riddle talking entity.

Cannot comment ont this :-/

> Also considering that Sodipodi started out as a fork of Gill so do I
> feel this hollier than thou attitude is more than a little
> hypocritical. 

It would do good, if you'd study the situation a bit more
thoroughly. The situations are not very similar.

Best wishes,
Lauris Kaplinski






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