On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 22:49 +0100, Joachim Noreiko wrote: > --- Elijah Newren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You are more than welcome to write your own or fork > > gnome-screensaver. > > The GPL is designed to allow those who disagree > > with the direction of > > a project to take it a new direction. > > That's not a very helpful answer.
Well, it's true. > The deeper problem is this: > If I understand correctly, each module in gnome's cvs > is its own private kingdom. There is no way for this > list or anyone else to compel the maintainer to do > something about this particular problem with > screensaver options. (Or in fact the problem of the > truly horrendous label text -- see archives from > shortly before the 2.12 release.) If you bring a sound rationale to the table the maintainer ought to be willing to listen. "It doesn't work as it used to so therefore it is broken" usually isn't a good rationale. (See link to what Havoc Pennington's has written down about this in my reply to Scott.) Also, neither you nor Scott seem to have read (or understood?) what the maintainer has to say on the issue. > Yet we're trying to build a coherent desktop. So, the ones who complain the loudest and aren't even willing to help should dictate the direction of the project? Ever heard of meritocracy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy Martin -- http://coiley.zapto.org/~martin _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
