Le mardi 10 novembre 2009 à 10:18 +0100, Xavier Claessens a écrit : > So if you agree/disagree with those changes, please tell your opinion! I > would like to know if I'm the only one to be worried.
I do share your concerns. I think the biggest problem in this story is not the change itself but the way it has been managed. The change of default configuration has *not* been communicated properly. It was not secret, of course, but such important change affecting the whole desktop and each GNOME/GTK+ applications deserves a better communication. It should be announced on ddl at the beginning of the cycle, explaining the rational of the change, telling to maintainers about the new policy regarding icons and how they should make sure that their application still work fine. A plan should has been defined to ensure that all the applications (not only the GNOME ones but also the popular Gtk+ apps used on most GNOME desktop) wouldn't suffer from the change. Instead of that, most of the people discovered this change after it has been merged (or when they upgraded their GNOME) and, afaik, there are still no clear guidelines for maintainers explaining how they should deal with icons (maybe such doc exists but if it does it hasn't been communicated enough). If I was paranoid I'd be tempted to think that this miss-communication could have been somewhat intentional. If you want to push a controversial change, it's easier to not talk too much about it before so once people complain it's too late and they just have to suck it up. I'm not accusing anyone and really hope that this wasn't the case (as our code of conduct says we should assume that people mean well), but you have to understand why some people are upset about the way this whole thing has been managed. Finally, I think it's a bit sad that we spend more time discussing if it's ok to use $LANGUAGE to write GNOME apps and almost ignore such big change affecting the experience of any GNOME user in any application... Regards, G. -- Guillaume Desmottes <c...@skynet.be> Jabber <cass...@jabber.belnet.be> GPG 1024D/711E31B1 | 1B5A 1BA8 11AA F0F1 2169 E28A AC55 8671 711E 31B1 _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list