Re: Giving an application a window icon in a sensible way

Karl Uppiano wrote:
I find the phenomenon of topic drift curious. There seems to be a
recurrent pattern in this group in which a person creates an initial
topic of some Java related sort or another and the topic quickly drifts
to criticism and "bashing" of the person that started the thread.

I think people are put off by your rapid shift to a home-grown solution,
when there is a very good, standard, and commonly used solution available.

A shift prompted by finding reference to it with Google before finding
reference to the other solution. If (as does in fact seem to be the
case) the latter is the standard one, this is rather odd, but I'd
suggest you take it up with Google, not with me.

You seem to be looking for reasons not to use it. I can understand the "not
invented here" syndrome, but it really isn't helpful in this case.

Given that the method currently being used wasn't "invented here"
either, that is clearly not what's going on.

Thing is, people didn't merely mention the other solution. They
lambasted me for not using it to begin with (e.g. "Why the hell are you
doing it THAT way?!" or words to that effect, fairly early in this
thread). And that, of course, means that now I must defend my original
choice; someone asked "why the hell", and I clearly look foolish if I
don't answer or I instantly change my mind, so instead I must explain
precisely why the hell. And I've mentioned all of the following:
* That that was the method I discovered first through the research I've
since been accused of never doing;
* That for such a small and simple case it has no particular
disadvantages, and may have slight advantages, regardless of the
general case;
* That certain assumptions they had made regarding what build tools I
was using and what I was familiar with were not actually true...
Unfortunately, nothing satisfies them! I still don't fathom how or
*why* it has blown up into a huge controversy. Apparently, some people
simply can't rest until they've proven something -- and it's created a
situation in which I have little choice but to not rest until I've
*dis*proven it, given that the "something" amounts to "Twisted is a
fool"!

Of course, that's all a moot point if you're a one-man shop.

:)

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