[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#673136: Bug#673136: network manager window manager requirements

[Jameson Graef Rollins]

> Just complaining doesn't magically fix things and suggesting that I
> wasted other people's time or treat them like second class citizens
> really annoys me. If you read the bug report you will notice that I
> invested a lot of time trying to find out what was going on.

Hi, Michael.  I don't think Micah was suggesting that you personally
wasted anyone's time or treated anyone like a second class citizen.  You
were certainly helpful to me in figuring out what the issue was.  I
think he was just venting the same general frustration I have that these
tools seemed to be designed to work only with a few particular "blessed"
configurations, and that those of us that use alternative desktop
environments frequently get left out in the cold.

But as maintainer of this particular package it might be possible to
improve the situation for us outsiders by documenting what esoteric
configurations requirements there are.  That would be a really good
trend to start in Debian in general.  When this sort of stuff ends up
causing one of us to waste half a day flailing trying to figure it out
why a seemingly simple tool won't work, without any indication as to
why, it can create a lot of frustration that can lead to bad blood.

jamie.
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