On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:52 PM, William Jon McCann <
william.jon.mcc...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Jason,
>
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Jason D. Clinton<m...@jasonclinton.com>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Calum Benson <calum.ben...@sun.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> So if it turns out that the GNOME community like the general direction
> >> we've suggested for the control center, then sure, I'd certainly like to
> see
> >> us widen out the discussion to visual panels as well.
> >
> > Has there been any movement with regard to the mouse-over pop-up menu
> > criticism that I pointed out--that it breaks the metaphor and there's no
> > precedent for it? There wasn't any response on the blog post[1] from the
> > parties involved with creating the mock-up. Another criticism--not
> mine--was
> > the 90 degree rotated text for category naming. I didn't see a response
> to
> > that either. Communication needs to be two-way.
> >
> > [1] http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2009/07/14/control-center-refresh/
>
> This is pretty far off topic.  I think discussing a control center
> design is really important.  But it should probably happen here:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomecc-list/2009-July/msg00007.html


I am not on gnome-cc and have no desire to be. I didn't bring this topic up
and I think it's entirely relevant since Sun is essentially saying here that
they are offering up some two-way cooperation--the topic of the thread.
Those criticisms need to be addressed--even if it's just saying there's a
good counterargument that will be coming at some later point--if they aren't
going to replied to in the location in which critiques were solicited.

On another note, there are now just as many emails in my GMail view of this
conversation about the thread as there are of the thread itself (many of
them are off-list seething hate mail from current and former Sun and Red Hat
employees). By my count, there would be a 36% less noise in this thread if
people would stop appointing themselves d-d-l police. Incidentally, this is
the same reason that #gnome-hackers is now practically dead--everyone is so
afraid of offending un-written, ambiguous rules of content on #gnome-hackers
(apparently enforced at a whim vis-a-vis the ban of Rupert) that no one
talks at all.
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