From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nl0JP-0002Pr-6M for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:32:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F26CE0A10; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:32:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CF74E0A10 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:32:19 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,546,1262563200"; d="scan'208";a="170432105" Received: from unknown (HELO compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org) ([213.152.39.90]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 26 Feb 2010 13:32:12 +0000 Received: from funf.stroller.uk.eu.org (funf.stroller.uk.eu.org [192.168.1.71]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76BC2271FD for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:32:09 +0000 (GMT) Message-Id: <5AA21FDE-AC78-4CAD-B0C4-510FA05CB78F@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> From: Stroller To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <3ac129341002260419j7fea4135seb921010371b9cfa@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alsamixer transparent, should submit feature to bugzilla? Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:32:09 +0000 References: <3ac129341002260419j7fea4135seb921010371b9cfa@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Archives-Salt: c2072c24-339d-448e-99c5-9b77ce78b493 X-Archives-Hash: a1e1778f68b1968432ef7af343e951d5 On 26 Feb 2010, at 12:19, daid kahl wrote: > ... > My question is if anyone is going to accept this as a reasonable > "feature" addition to alsa-mixer on the main portage tree. I assume > perhaps not, but I can't really see almost any advantage of the forced > black background. If you want a black background, I say run the > terminal that way. > > I didn't make the patch, so I have no intention to take the credit > myself, but I didn't want to look like a dunce on bugzilla, but I've > never submitted a feature request that didn't make me look like a > dunce, hence polling opinion here. > ... > https://www.prof-maad.org/blog/2009/11/11/transparent-alsamixer/ The first thing I would do is contact upstream (their -dev mailing list?) and ask if they're aware of the patch. If know about it, but refuse to integrate it they may be able to give a good reason. Stroller.