A story on /. (http://slashdot.org/articles/03/07/06/1317216.shtml? tid=131&tid=189) is about a patch which enabled menu shadows for GTK2 programs. I don't know how well it works. But it would be nice to include the patch into the gtk2 ebuild and perhaps trigger its invocation through a useflags.
we are aware of this patch. but it is a dirty hack, so unfortunately, we do not feel it is right to go into portage. Even if it his hidden behind as useflag.
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It isnt that bad and its a wanted feature so why not? If we dont enable it per default I dont see any reason to keep it out. I suggest hiding it behind an enviorment variable instead of USE-flag. Having a USE-flag to enable one single patch seems to defeat the purpose of USE to me.
thats the point of local use flags
a hack such as this isn't good, and to hide a bad extra feature beneath an option to enable it is a bad attitude towards development. I quite agree with liquidx here, it should not go into the tree.
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