On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 16:59 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 08:27 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > It doesn't seem to be an unavoidable requirement, it says: > > > > "If you proposed Start/Home Page is not similar to the existing Firefox > > Start Page, please be prepared to provide a rationale for the change, > > and how it would benefit the end-user. " > > > > I think we could manage such a rationale. > > We can definitely make a rationale for having a bunch of Fedora > resources on the start page, but our rationale for omitting a Google > search box, "it's redundant and promotes a proprietary service", is not > a line of reasoning I would expect Mozilla to accept. Then again, they > may calculate that they are better off compromising on this issue in > order to keep Fedora using their trademarks.
'It's redundant' seems fairly reasonable to me. IIRC, the presence of a search box on the start page is a hangover from when there *wasn't* one in the browser chrome by default. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
