[pkg-fso-maint] [Debian] Device-agnostic fso-frameworkd: ready to go!
arne anka
openmoko at ginguppin.de
Fri Oct 31 13:58:59 UTC 2008
> Please do not take anything I wrote in this mail as offensive: this was
> not my intention.
no undue worries.
>> i know a lot of people who hate it and have their cellphones switched
>> to vibration first thing after powering on the first time.
>
> This is the key: *after* the phone has been powering on the first time.
well, it was mostly a matter of phrasing -- most phones do not allow
disabling sounds before switched on (the treo 270, 600 and 650 have a
switch, so, technically, one has not to switch on the phone).
>> furthermore, the intended audience of debian/fso should be able to
> What is "the intended audience"? I think you are a bit too naive here,
> since you completely missed my point: not only because Debian does not
> have an "intended audience" [a], but also because simply reading the
well, i think people installing debian on their fr (and that's the
audience i was speaking of, not debian in general) could be expected to
know what they do.
> Please, no flame here, this discussion is about ringtones for the Debian
> fso-frameworkd package.
right, i only try to make clear why i tink a recommendation is better then
a dependency.
> However, to better document how to create a local configuration for the
> ring- and message-tones, I just committed [i] . Please let me know if
> anything there is not clear.
no offense intended, but how is the fiddling with u-a meant to be easier
compared to installing a recommendation?
>> i think i fail to grasp the whole idea of creating an additional
>> pacakge (with data not necessary only, maybe, useful) and then forcing
>> it upon the user.
>
> I do not think I force someone to use these sounds
not using the sounds but installing the package.
> However, since I am a kind of maniac for my Debian work and I do not
> like leaving stuff undone, I already implemented fso-sounds-none [l].
now we're talking :-)
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