Hi, Am Dienstag, 14. Oktober 2008 09:59 schrieb Spiro Trikaliotis: > Hello, > > I do not want to generate a new wishlist bug, so I am putting it here, > where it fits, too: > > * On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 06:15:29PM +0200 Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > * Andreas Stempfhuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-10-04 17:29:06 > > CEST]: > > > "Despite the availability of a Gnome interface, this package is still > > > compiled for use with Xaw3d, partly to avoid the nest of dependencies > > > that goes along with Gnome, and partly because fullscreen mode is not > > > available with the Gnome interface." > > Why not generate two VICE packages: vice-xaw, vice-gnome, and a > transitional vice which defaults to vice-xaw?
I don't know if this is necessary, I personally don't like the Xaw UI, it was allways the reason why I compiled my own vice package with the Gnome UI (although I am not a Gnome user). > Even a new vice-roms package might be possible, which defaults to some > vice-roms-dummy package (containing only empty ROMs) That means an empty package :-) > , and implementing > some alternative vice-roms-real which might be hosted somewhere else? The Commodore brand and copyright is moving around between different companies. A few weeks ago it was sold back to Nedfield [1] (formerly known as Tulip, they bought Commodore in 1997 and sold it in 2004 [2]) and they are still trying to make money with the brand and copyright. This ongoing sellout is a shame :-( However, that's the reason why it is also not possible to add the ROM images to non-free. IMHO the only doable thing is to provide a script where the user can manually download the ROM images from different locations, where it's up to him to make sure that he has the necessary rights to do that. Regards, Andi [1] http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS108390+18-Sep-2008+BW20080918 [2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/27/tulip_wants_commodore_back/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
