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Changing backgrounds

Posted Apr 23, 2008 23:19 UTC (Wed) by NCunningham (subscriber, #6457)
In reply to: Changing backgrounds by russell
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor encounters the Hardy Heron

(Not a Gnome developer, but I am a developer)

It doesn't matter how the developer intends the software to be used. Users will always come up
with ways of using it that you never imagined.

What counts is whether the knobs you provide for tuning your software work as advertised,
regardless of which combination of settings the user tries. If they find a combination where
something doesn't work as intended, you have a bug. If they find a combination where something
works as intended, but not as desired, well... that's a feature request.

In this case, it's a bug because the advertised functionality doesn't work as advertised in
these circumstances.

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Changing backgrounds

Posted Apr 24, 2008 1:20 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Well the guy that was asking the question asked 'If it was a regression', not 'if was a bug'.

It may be a bug, but it's not a regression. It's always been like this as far as I know.

It shouldn't be hard to fix, so file a bug report and let it go. They fix it or they don't.