Fw: [compiz] patch for colored drop-shadow

[Mark Rosenstand]

On Sun, 2006-05-07 at 23:02 -0400, Quinn Storm wrote:
> Who gets to make the determination as to what is "useless crap"?

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To me, the shadow color is not an obvious thing that people want to
adjust. Hence, why I didn't add it in the first place. But if people
are requesting this option, I'll gladly accept macslow's patch.

-David

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> This really smacks of the misfeature that gnome is pushing for of
> removing all supposedly confusing or needless options until someone
> complains loud enough to get them back in.
> 
> I can understand hiding options behind advanced tabs, I can understand
> removing options that their inclusion has big negative impacts, but
> just removing options to remove options is beyond me.

This was about adding an option, not removing one. Adding code for
options which nobody want to use doesn't make sense. The maintainers
will have to maintain more code, and the users will have a harder time
finding the useful ones and potentially discover (and report) more bugs.

> It is beginning to look like compiz will fork early in its development,
> one toward configurability and options, the other toward your vision.

Personally I've had fun toying with options in compiz that I would never
have thought of (and reverted all but 5 or so), so this critique seems
unfair. "David's vision" is just responsible maintainership.