[openbox] Images in the menu

Holly Bostick motub at planet.nl
Fri Oct 29 23:30:56 EDT 2004


Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Lucas Hazel wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 05:08:14 +0200 (CEST)
>> Mikael Magnusson <mangosoft at comhem.se> wrote:
>>
>>> Bloody sod off then.
>>
>>
>> At the risk of appearing to have an "attitude problem" I totally agree.
>> The fact that openbox doesnt have all that extra crap (panels, toolbars,
>> purple monkey dishwashers) is why I like it so much.
>>
>> "PS. I really hate the "send your patches" and other elitistic comments
>> that seems to plague this list..."
>>
>> It appears you don't fully understand the ideals of the opensource
>> movement, sure it might be fun to sit in a darkened room bitching about
>> openbox's lack of features and development speed (or lack there of) but
>> like most people I'm sure Mikael has a Real-Life___ and sending the patch
>> is a much quicker way to get a feature added, rather than waiting for
>> someone to do it for you (hell, you might even learn something).
> 
> 
> Most of the time it's the only way to get the feature added, people code 
> for themselves and share what they have done for themselves. Writing 
> code for others that you don't use yourself is a lot less likely to happen.
> 
> -- 
> Mikael Magnusson
> 

What is it with this rash of accusations of elitism today? This is the 
second list where threads in which people who stand by any variant of 
'get off your duff and contribute like a good FOSS citizen" gets beaten 
about the head and shoulders.

Some new additive in the water/air? And what the hell is elitism (in the 
new mailing-list/Linux/computer language sense) anyway?

Holly



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