On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 7:46 PM, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/5/18 Fergal Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> That's the Gnome way: make decisions for the users, assuming that what > the dev wants is exactly what the user wants. The KDE way would be to > make it konfigurable, where the user can choose which side he prefers. I'd suggest anyone following the quoted text above read this blog post, perhaps ironically written by someone working on KDE software... [I would also suggest that they look at how Ubuntu, KDE and GNOME make decisions, since the above is a ghastly inaccurate generalization of the processes involved] http://weblog.obso1337.org/2008/four-words-for-funpidgin/ The irony, of course, comes from the criticality of the team working on Funpidgin, while ignoring some of their own software teams that employ many of the tactics or similar ones that the post is critical of (though in addition to her points, s/Users/Developers/ is probably just as fair a substitution to make in this case. This was pointed out by Emmanuele Bassi in the post's comments and I entirely agree with him). Pot, kettle, etc. I sincerely hope that they can read these words and take them to heart, not that they're not making significant strides forward towards usability, nor that GNOME isn't making strides towards flexibility. I'll refrain from posting in this thread any more, as it has already gotten dangerously offtopic and nearly pointless; a spartan flame under woolen attire, to beat around the bush a little. At the end of the day, the two camps have differing views on how things should be done, even if we can agree on common software and make our components' interoperability better and look-and-feel more compatible, as the software in the original post attempts to do. Perhaps it'd be enough just to package and ship the software and let users enable it at their will for now. How's that for doing what users wish? 2 cents, truckload of salt, opinions expressed are mine except where otherwise noted, no offense intentional, etc. -A.Walton > Dotan Cohen > > http://what-is-what.com > http://gibberish.co.il > א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
