Even the most well intentioned changes create an incompatibility, not only with how GNOME behaves by default, but with Debian and other Debian-based distros where DEB packages may have just worked.
Instead of just doing all of this outside of the GNOME project and throwing Ubuntu's weight around to get them to begrudgingly maybe accept it later, it may have been nicer to get them to approve some of this into a blueprint for a real GNOME release at some point. If the feature is as valuable as you say, then it shouldn't take a lot of arm twisting. BTW, this new notifications thing also makes for problems with all but a few gtk2 theming engines built with it in mind, things like volume notifications and maybe more are practically guaranteed not to work if you don't modify them or get them from gnome-look.org This appears to be one of the things Ian Murdock was talking about a few years ago when he said "As long as Debian has good children, packages built on one project will usually work in the other distribution". He was of course referring to the fact that Red Hat spawned a lot of forks years ago that are now mostly incompatible with one another. It's sad that Ubuntu is becoming the "Suse" to Debian's "Red Hat", yeah maybe some of the stuff that's happening makes sense, but a lot of it jsut breaks compatibility for no reason. -- Closing or removing indicator-applet does not restore correct GNOME behavior https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346159 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
