Shipping a cursor theme with KDE

[Dan Meltzer]

On 12/26/07, Matt Williams <matt at milliams.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 December 2007 16:22:51 Dan Meltzer wrote:
> > On 12/25/07, Riccardo Iaconelli <riccardo at kde.org> wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> > > Is this feasible? What you think of that?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > As discussed recently on irc, I feel like it is far too late in the
> > release process to even considder committing something like this.  We
> > are ten days before a release, adding something this noticible to the
> > user with very few opportunities for them to provide feedback is very
> > irresonsible.  This should wait for 4.1 to allow for more testing and
> > feedback before a release.
> >
> > My 2c.
>
> Is it not possible to provide this theme as an option, but not set it as
> default? This would alow those who wish to try it out to provide feedback
> while avoiding the problem of ruining the KDE experience if it goes wrong
> somehow.

It's ten days before the release.  People should not be adding *new*
things in *months* after the feature freeze, even if it is artwork.
>
> Matt Williams
>
> > > [1] http://blog.ruphy.org/posts/30
> > > [2]
> > > http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=users/ruphy/oxy-cursors.git;a=summary
> > > [3] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~ruphy/oxy-cursors/
> > >
> > > Bye,
> > > -Riccardo
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