HI all,
I've been trying to create a .menu file to drop in /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu which adds submenus to the game menu based on the XxxxGame catagories listed under "Additional Category" here: http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html
So that people who want to can have a games menu under gnome like the KDE submenu. Unfortunately this seems impossible for now because of: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=216261
I know that others on this list are interested in this too, may I kindly ask that your add yourself to the CC-list of this bug as a subtle hint that I'm not the only one who cares?
Thanks & Regards,
Hans
The last bug I submitted to Ray Strode took an *extremely* long time to get a very simple bug fixed, I eventually had to call upon some higher ups at RedHat in order for him to actually apply a patch and fix the bug. He would not even so much as even reply to the bug report after months of replys and CCs from other people.
I have dealt with two other RedHat maintainers who also take the same lackadaisical attitude towards bug fixing. I'm not really sure what the RedHat engineers actually do over there...but that is for another discussion I guess...
On 11/18/06, Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl wrote:
HI all,
I've been trying to create a .menu file to drop in /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu which adds submenus to the game menu based on the XxxxGame catagories listed under "Additional Category" here: http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html
So that people who want to can have a games menu under gnome like the KDE submenu. Unfortunately this seems impossible for now because of: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=216261
I know that others on this list are interested in this too, may I kindly ask that your add yourself to the CC-list of this bug as a subtle hint that I'm not the only one who cares?
Thanks & Regards,
Hans
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On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 05:28 -0800, Christopher Stone wrote:
The last bug I submitted to Ray Strode took an *extremely* long time to get a very simple bug fixed, I eventually had to call upon some higher ups at RedHat in order for him to actually apply a patch and fix the bug. He would not even so much as even reply to the bug report after months of replys and CCs from other people.
I have dealt with two other RedHat maintainers who also take the same lackadaisical attitude towards bug fixing. I'm not really sure what the RedHat engineers actually do over there...but that is for another discussion I guess...
I would bet that they're running around like chickens with FC6 just out the door and all the bugfixes on packages that would have a higher priority than games. If the kernel is broken, that would certainly come first. Missing config.h is an example of something higher up to resolve, for backwards compatibility. I doubt they're being discourteous, with all hell breaking out around them, I would guess they figure you'll understand where they are presently at. But, months?? That's pretty crucial. A quickie email to you would have been better to explain just what was going on... and, respectful.
When I worked there in 2000, we had to have stuff out the door and resolved within a week, as our target goal in the Tech Support Department. While things might not actually gotten totally resolved in a week, there were plenty emails to explain just where the problem was in the resolution path for RedHat issues. If it was deemed a third party issue, then that would have been conveyed in an email explaining that.
We weren't 'maintainers'... just a layer of communication between those with the problems and those able to do something about the problem. That was mostly during Bob Youngs days when Mathew was just coming on-board. He's a great guy, but his job is to watch the bottom-line so that everyone there gets paychecks that won't bounce. I wouldn't have that job for all the tea in China. Ric