[maemo-developers] Unsatisfied with bugs.maemo.org

[From: Claudio Saavedra]

On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 10:07 +0200, Till Harbaum / Lists wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> sorry, but i don't get your point. You say that you'd need tests and things
> for the themeing and thus you don't do it at all? You mean it's acceptible
> to not theme them at all and have them look ugly but it's not acceptible
> to give them a quick/untested themeing? Why? You basically say "either we
> do things perfectly or we do them in the worse possible way". I'd say:
> If you don't support that feature, then remove it entirely from the libs 
> and from the api docs. But distributing a library containing stuff you just 
> won't support is pretty odd.

[...]
> 
> You say you only fix those features that are actually a problem 
> for your own product and you don't care  for widgets that are "only" 
> used by third party applications. Are you serious? Nokia really isn't interested
> in supporting third party apps? Support is only provided if there's also
> a benefit for nokias own applications? Wow ...

To be more precise on this topic, it's not that we didn't work on
theming of the so-called "legacy widgets"[1]. Lots of work (and I really
mean, *lots* of work) went into making sure that at least the common use
cases of these widgets are themed in a consistent way with the new
Fremantle style, but as in any project, there are priorities to attend
and some issues, like the one you mention, would require a huge effort
to get right. You need to understand that we also have time/resources
constrains.

Claudio

[1] That is, widgets that even being part of GTK+ or hildon 2.0, are not
recommended to be used for Fremantle because they differ from the new UI
style.