On 13 Aug 2008, at 17:24, Brian Cameron wrote: > I suspect that I would be more liberal than you about what should be > included. I don't quite feel so strongly that we should never, ever > have multiple programs to do the same thing. For example, I think > GAIM and Xchat would compliment each other rather than conflict. > But, I don't think we need 4 IRC clients > in the menus either.
I think we're probably in broad agreement. Provided QA were happy with both of them, I'd certainly have no problem having Pidgin and Xchat co-exist on the menus, for example, because Pidgin, quite frankly, is a pretty poor IRC client anyway :) (That said, the one thing we were almost universally praised for with our very first JDS Linux release was how clear and simple the menus were compared to other distros at the time. And although JDS Linux was aimed at a difference audience, we probably have stiffer competition now than we did in those days.) > At any rate, I think winging about adding a dozen or so branding > patches > to add "Hidden=true" is just a waste of time. If that's what the > usability guys say we should do, lets just get it done. Well, I guess the main thing is to make sure we're going about it the right way before that dozen becomes a hundred or two. So I'd suggest we probably need some buy-in from (a) Solaris marketing/c-team/whoever about the consequences for the Nevada desktop user experience, and (b) from RE on any proposed technical solution, e.g. automatic generation of those branding patches based on something like a package whitelist (that is, a list of all the desktop files we *don't* want hidden, per the Nevada UI spec). Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
