On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Mark F <azday...@gmail.com> wrote: > What I'm wondering is whether you guys ever evaluate Mint Xfce and consider > evolving the desktop in that direction? Is it ever even discussed?
I haven't done a personal evaluation of Mint Xfce, but we absolutely are continually evaluating and sorting through feedback from users on mailing lists and social media. Armed with this information, I bring up pain points at meetings, we adjust our themes and wallpapers and each cycle when we evaluate our default applications and other choices, we are able to make choices that benefit the most number of users. The biggest struggle is that this is all very subjective. Even in this thread, you have opinions about what should be changed, but Jack has a different idea, and they are very frequently opposite. We also have to consider the direction of user environments in general. For instance, the introduction of Whisker by default was balked at by some in the beginning, with a lot of support requests about how to return to the old menu. Today most users are quite happy with it since finding things by searching for them is commonplace on our phones, tablets, etc and now we've moved on to discussing how to improve the behavior of it. Finally, it's important to remember that we're all volunteers and our time is limited :) Your feedback is great and adds to this wealth of information we can use to make decisions about our priorities and direction, but we are quite limited in what we an done. Our development team is doing the work of making sure software is packaged and updated, whereas projects that use our packages (like Mint Xfce) can focus their development efforts exclusively on making improvements based on their own user feedback on top of that. -- Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2 -- xubuntu-devel mailing list xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
