[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#708002: Processed: Re: Bug#708002: sylpheed: ignores gtk-can-change-accels = 1

[Ricardo Mones]

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:09:54AM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On jeu., 2013-05-16 at 09:22 +0200, Ricardo Mones wrote:
> > I've not reassigned it, but honestly don't understand what you mean or
> > where the rudeness is. Would be less rude if he had opened a new bug instead?
> >   Isn't clear from the bug messages what the problem is? 
> 
> What is rude is what I get in my mailbox:
[...] 
> > Changed Bug title to 'XFCE makes gtkrc-2.0 be ignored' from 'sylpheed: ignores gtk-can-change-accels = 1'
[...]
> This is an automated mail from the BTS in response to the reassign. No
> word at all from the original maintainer or the reporter in order to
> explain the new maintainer what is the problem and why it is reassigned.
> I need to do the job myself to go through the BTS and read the whole
> thread in order to understand why it has been reassigned, what the
> problem is etc.
> 
> That is rude and it's considered really better to forward bugs with a
> real mail to the new maintainer explaining what happens and making a bug
> summary.

  Well, I agree that a brief explanation would have been better. That isn't
going to save you from reading the whole thread unless done very well, but
gives you a context to start with.

  Said that, lets try synthetise it:

  José set «gtk-can-change-accels = 1» and «gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"»
in his ~/.gtkrc-2.0, which are parsed by Sylpheed, but being ignored.

  Later discovered that XFCE settings allow changing this, but claimed
this should be documented by Sylpheed. Common sense says this has to be
documented by XFCE, as it's the one altering the default GTK+ behaviour
which Sylpheed follows when no desktop is involved.

  I told him to reassign or open a new bug if XFCE was not documenting this
(fact I still doubt, as also told him). I guess he didn't found it.

  regards,
-- 
  Ricardo Mones 
  ~
  Quantity derives from measurement, figures from quantities, 
  comparisons from figures, and victories from comparisons. 
                                                              Sun Tzu
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