Please strip out the patch that brings up applications behind gnome-terminal

[Miles Lane]

On 1/31/06, Rudi Chiarito <nutello at sweetness.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:09:18PM -0800, Miles Lane wrote:
> > Are you a FC developer?  Have you checked the behavior?
>
> I can't at the moment, as I am away from my Rawhide boxes.
>
> > It is unconditional.  So, I should file a bug, eh?
>
> Okay, I found it. It's this change:
> http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&file=window.c&branch=&root=/cvs/gnome&subdir=metacity/src&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&rev1=1.406&rev2=1.407
> http://tinyurl.com/amwfc
>
> It was partially backed out a few days later with this:
> http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&file=window.c&branch=&root=/cvs/gnome&subdir=metacity/src&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&rev1=1.412&rev2=1.413
> http://tinyurl.com/9fsgn
>
> The new behaviour is still there for terminals.
>
> > Again, I think Fedora should reject this change to Metacity.
> > I know that Redhat maintains custom kernel patches.  Can we
> > have a Metacity that doesn't implement this nutty window management?
>
> This is where the author of the change explains the rationale:
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326159
>
> > Does Fedora Core have any influence over the development decisions
> > of the Metacity project?  Are we simply at the mercy of their whims?
>
> I think at least a couple of Metacity developers, including the person
> that started the project, are RH employees. :-)

Thanks for your time in putting this info together, Rudi.  Please, anyone
else who dislikes this new "feature", go to the bug report and attach
well-documented use cases showing that this functionality is damaging
to usability!  I am going to.

Best wishes,
            Miles