[Okular-devel] [PATCH] Fix rendering of DVI documents

Benoit Jacob jacob.benoit.1 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 3 00:56:59 CEST 2009


2009/10/2 Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>:
> A Dissabte, 3 d'octubre de 2009, Benoit Jacob va escriure:
>> Sigh. Am I really ridiculous, as you imply, for having expected a
>> little "thanks" ?
>
> Sincerely, yes, saying thanks is a good manner that is being gradually lost
> (at lest here in Barcelona), and that's bad. So i'm sorry to only find
> problems in your contributions and not be positive about your findings.

:)

When you submit a patch to a project and a core maintainer says
thanks, that matters a lot :)

>> I never said that. As soon as I read about your proposal to introduce
>> the option, I was satisfied. It is useless for DVI, but it doesn't
>> disturb me. And I understand that you want only one GUI for
>> configuration, not one per file format.
>
> Exact, the option might be of not much use for DVI, but an option per format
> sucks a lot

Yes, agreed (see previous mail).

>
>> All is OK and for the rest, I
>> was only replying point by point to your replies.
>>
>> Again, let's not end this discussion on bad feelings. I don't know how
>> such a technical discussion about patches could lead to bad moods but
>> let's make sure it's over now. I never meant to offend you or attack
>> you personnally, I was only criticizing existing code.
>
> No problem, it sometimes gets too much personal when it shouldn't, i'm not
> angry and you are not, everyone's happy :-)
>
>> Thanks for listening,
>
> Thanks for the patch, serious.

You're welcome :)

Benoit

PS. Blogging about this didn't help either. I always knew that
something was a bit dangerous about blogs, and I even mentioned it in
the 1st sentence of my post, now I understand better. The lesson that
I learned : only blog about a patch AFTER it has been accepted.


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