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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Re: menubars on balloon help windows
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John A. Turner writes:
 > Kyle Jones writes:
 >  > Karl M. Hegbloom writes:
 >  >  > Look what I found.  The first balloon there told me
 >  >  > that I could see a menu if I clicked button 3, so I
 >  >  > did.  After that, the balloon looks as shown.  I'm
 >  >  > still seeing the ["AAAAAAAAAAAAA..."] in the minibuffer
 >  >  > with live-icon and balloon-help.  Is this one of the
 >  >  > things the c version of balloon help is going to fix?
 >  > 
 >  > No, live-icon is BROKEN.  Those who want live-icon to
 >  > work need to take responsiblity for it.  It needs to be
 >  > rewritten.  It contains code that (near as I can tell)
 >  > isn't even being used.  If no one wants to fix it then we
 >  > should drop it from the distribution.
 > 
 > Does this go for frame-icon as well?  Remember it has probs
 > playing nicely with balloon-help as well...

frame-icon has a maintainer--- either Bob Weiner or Michael
Lamoureux.  I believe the same standard should apply--- someone
should step up and fix the bugs or after a reasonable period we
drop the package from the distribution.

