On 1/31/06, Rudi Chiarito <nutello(a)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...
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...
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