[geeks] Leopard, was: find - having a senior moment

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Tue Jan 15 10:03:45 CST 2008


On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 12:45:11PM +0100, jvdg at sparcpark.net wrote:
> Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> 
> >> That said WTF is your problem with a calender icon that actually shows
> >> the right date?
> >
> > Adding the smarts to an icon for a non-running program so that it
> > changes in response to the date should be about 3,000 notches below
> > making sure -advertised features- (X11, SMB, printing) work out-of-the-
> > box flawlessly.  Sure, if everything else works well, burn some time on
> > that.  If not, there are more important things to do.
> 
> You are, of course, correct.
> 
> But, I suspect there are different teams working on different things,
> wouldn't you agree? If the team dedicated to fancy icons has some
> spare time, should they sit on their hands because the Unix toolset
> team is behind schedule..? 

Besides, for all we know, the changing date was because someone decided
to stay late a few evenings to add it because he himself wanted it.



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