On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 09:59 +0800, Christopher Lees wrote: > On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 12:00 +0100, George Farris wrote: > > > > Wait just a bit. The problem is that the notification area is a poor > > > replacement of the window list. Instead of big strips with an icon and > > > a title, it's just a tiny icon. And that icon even has arbitrary > > > behavior. The idea is to get rid of the notification area *and* to > > > reintroduce the removed features in the window list, application > > > indicator, or any other place where it is actually appropriate. > > > > Well then IMHO it should probably have been left at the old behavior > > until it was ready. Why totally mess people up with something they have > > been doing for "years"? It seems an odd and very broken decision > > process. Just sayin! > > Ubuntu does things by a process of evolution, not revolution. If they'd > not introduced Indicator Applet until it was a finished design, then it > would have probably been incredibly buggy and unusable for everyone > except the developer. The way it's been done has ensured that bugs get > fixed the whole while by community testing.
But they didn't have to do the first stage in an LTS that people will be using for three years. -- 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
