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I hope this is the right place for this, or at least the right place to |
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start. Feel free to flame me if it's not. This question relates to |
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submitting a patch for a Gentoo package. I was running tuxnes-0.75 |
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today. I was playing Final Fantasy 3, which is AFAIK not yet released |
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in the USA (and also AFAIK there are no plans to do so in the future.) |
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I have a ROM of it translated from Japanese that I downloaded years ago. |
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Anyway, I was unfamiliar with interface controls in tuxnes (still used |
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to nesticle, I guess), so when I wanted to exit the menu in teh game, I |
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hit the escape key out of habit (I don't know why I did this - I guess |
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it's because in the little games I write myself escape closes the menu. |
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In nesticle, hitting escape just makes the nesticle menu bar visible.). |
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Anyway, this not only closed the menu, but tuxnes as well, losing my |
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progress in the game. Needless to say I was unhappy with this, as I |
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didn't go to the menu until after fighting the Land Turtle - the first |
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boss battle of the game. There wasn't a reason to go to the menu before |
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then. |
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At first I didn't understand why the escape key would exit the emulator |
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- I have the X use flag enabled, so I have a title bar, control box, and |
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the minimize, maximize and close buttons across the top, so if I wanted |
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to close the emulator I'd just hit the X button in the corner, but I |
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guess people who didn't have the X flag enabled would need the escape |
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key exit. |
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Anyway, for people like me who have the X flag enabled and might |
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accidentally hit the escape key and lose their progress in the game, I |
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downloaded the source code of tuxnes-0.75 and commented out all the code |
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segments responsible for that ESC/"quit tuxnes" behaviour and I have |
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created a patch for each of the files affected (there are three.) What |
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I want to know is, should I submit the three patches in a bug report? I |
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don't have a modified ebuild ready that says, "if the X USE flag is |
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enabled, apply the patches" - I don't really know how to safely |
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write/edit ebuilds yet. Do I even submit them to Gentoo's bugzilla, or |
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should I paddle upstream with them? What should I do? |
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