old patch enabling visible icons in some applications

[Luke Benstead]

2009/8/20 Philipp A. <trueflyingsheep at googlemail.com>:
> what do you mean with “clean it up”? i don’t see anything not-clean about
> it.
> and why is it nonfunctional in your opinion?
> and for testing: that’s what svn-versions are for, aren’t they?
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> 2009/8/20 James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net>
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>> Philipp A. wrote:
>> >>> Well bug 8555 (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8555) is
>> >>> affected by that FIXME, so that can be a starting bug.
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>> > Well, i think, they don't like working apps.
>> > What on earth can i do to make somebody stop by and put the damn patch
>> > into the svn?
>> >
>> Clean it up and make it functional including tests, if needed.
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>> James McKenzie
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Phillip, firstly, please bottom-post on the mailing list.

If the patch was not accepted there would have been a reason. Perhaps
there was an obvious error in the code, perhaps the approach was
wrong, perhaps it won't work in all cases. It also is possible that it
doesn't match the behaviour of Windows, or if it does, it needs to be
proved with a conformance test. Conformance tests are essential to
prove that a.) The fix works, b.) It matches the behaviour on Windows
and c.) a code change won't cause a regression in the future (because
the test would flag that up).

Just because it appears to give the correct result doesn't mean the
patch isn't flawed in some other way, you can always hack a solution
that would work in some cases but it won't be the right approach.

So, if you want this patch to be accepted, then someone needs to take
it up, they need to consult Alexandre Julliard in #winehackers to find
out why he rejected it in the first place, then they need to fix any
issues he has spotted and likely write a conformance test to prove the
patch is correct. You've said you don't want to get involved in
working on the patch itself, so you can find/make a bug report, link
to this patch and explain in the report that the patch seems to fix it
for you.

Luke.