On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 06:27:33PM -0600, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 17:49 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote: > > > From: Davyd Madeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > At this stage in the game, I think we should look at doing three > > > things: > > > (1) reverting the UI change, it is a bandaid fix to a deeper > > > problem; > > > > If the hope is to change it back when things get faster then this current > > change is inflicting unnecessary software churn on users. > > > > As I'm on older crappy hardware I guess I should sit out this release > > cycle entirely as an even slower Gnome would probably kill it. > > > > > (2) shipping GNOME 2.14 with gtk-engines 2.6, leaving people who > > > giving us more time to optimise gtk-engines/cairo/X > > > > I expect this would be unpopular with developers (especialy dobey). > > How many developers have really crappy hardware? (ie > 3 years old) > > Developers be damned. Let's take care of our users. > > Whizbang flashiness is great, but if we can't deliver > it quickly on moderate hardware, then it needs to sit > on the sidelines until we can. My machine is around > two years old. It is not a crappy machine. I had to > go back to an old gtk-engines because I just couldn't > handle it anymore.
Shaun has nailed it here. We should also consider our third-party developers. We're talking about people who have no interaction with the community and have simply been complaining about the degrading quality of GNOME releases (these people do exist). --d -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list