On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
But if one is an optimist one can take the position that having the
bug
fixed if you don't report it is an even rarer event.
Perhaps, but I'm not certain that statistics would back that up. I,
too, have reported many things and have only rarely seen reported
issues acknowledged, let alone resolved. Lately, I've taken the
wait-and-see approach, with approximately the same results. I guess
that I'm not an optimist.
As an aside, I'm thinking of bug 531088, which I initially thought
would be relatively easy to deal with. To be fair, it seems that many
smart and talented individuals have tried to tackle this, but a year
and a half on and problems persist in the mail notification applet. I
never imagined it could be so complicated. About a year ago, I stopped
paying attention to it and consigned myself to just not using the
applet. At the time, I figured it would be easier to rewrite the
applet completely from scratch than to continue to endure the
machinations that were apparently necessary to fix it. And maybe I was
right -- with GNOME3 there will probably come a completely revamped
mail notification applet that will probably not suffer the problems of
the current applet. So I'm hopeful that I will once again be able to
be informed of incoming mail, just as soon as I can swallow the pill
of GNOME3.
-Alan