Thomas Goirand writes ("Re: Gnome classic mode"): > Another thing: upstream decided to display a warning. I'm not sure it is > the role of Debian to decide they are wrong.
One of the points of having a distro is that a distro (being an entity with a better view of the bigger picture and a closer connection to the user) can make decisions to do things differently to upstream. It is not the job of Debian to do precisely what upstream think best. It is our job to do what /we/ think best. That's how Free Software works. In particular it is precisely the role of Debian to diverge from upstream wherever we think it best to do so. That includes an assessment of the amount of effort it would cost us to do so, of course, but in this case the amount of effort to disable the warning is going to be negligible. So now that we are thinking about the question (and going to the effort of making a decision about it) we should make our own judgement about whether that warning is valuable. I'm not sure of my actual opinion about the warning because I'm not sure of the technical background. But I think Debian should try to be remain good and useable even on machines with poor or no 3D graphics support, and not be seduced by bling and try to compete with the likes of Apple. There are many more people in the world whose computers don't have the latest shinies. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20559.20889.98634.343...@chiark.greenend.org.uk