Ben Wing <ben(a)666.com> writes:
But how *useful* are these things?
Potentially very useful, however if there isn't some use made of them
now that the basics work they will stay in this half useful half not
limbo like for instance the external widget support.
You want to get them into to a state where everybody and his dog can
use them and IMHO the best phase to do that is when the feature is
still new.
In particular, are they more important
than badly-needed fixes to the installation/documentation/UI?
No, but I think they are more or less orthogonal. I am all for
make concentrated push on the essentials, but you cannot simply trade
projects for another when the only time available is volunteer time.
Even though I know one of the most useful contributions right now
XEmacs would be to work a complete weekend with the FSF and XEmacs
User manuals in an Ediff session, I still want to worry why using
an XEmacs's external window in an XEmacs subwindow doesn't work.
<fatalist>
If the purpose is to attract more users, high priority should given to
implement transpart background support
</fatalist>
Jan