Hi, On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 03:19 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Emmanuele Bassi">
> > Ubuntu, as a packager, has all the rights of changing the default > > settings; on the other hand, I don't think that upstream behaviour should > > change, unless *every* GNOME packager decides to ship with browser mode by > > default - and even then, I'd be still strongly against it. > > GNOME, as a project, has always understood and supported the reality that > our distributors can and will make changes. I don't want to see us become > the kind of project that whines and moans about the way distributors take > advantage of the rights we give them under our chosen license. :-) I don't think that anyone would complain about distributors changing defaults; I, for sure, am not. Unless a distributor changes an option and disrupts my desktop - in which case, I'll make a real fuss about it. ;-) On the other hand, I think that upstream GNOME is definitely another beast, and what goes and goes not inside it as a default should be what the developers of a certain package decide to do - plus, something coming from the community. If Nautilus maintainers decide that spatial nautilus was a mistake, then I will not object the return to browser mode. The spatial paradigm has "inspired" a new UI design, for GNOME, though; now, more and more applications are working toward a "spatial" approach to the desktop itself - remembering the window geometry, using a single window for a document, etc. It was done before, it's getting the real "default design"; and I think that it was Nautilus' "mistake", even more than the HIG, that did this. If Topaz is moving toward a more comprehensive definition of "first class citizen" of the desktop, I think that the overall user experience will benefit from a widespread spatial paradigm. Ciao, Emmanuele. -- Emmanuele Bassi - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Log: http://log.emmanuelebassi.net _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list