Re: loomio

2013-04-17 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:08:31PM +0100, Marco Scannadinari wrote: So you want to have random people suddenly join, be of the decision and have equal say? I find that a little bit weird. As opposed to the method that we have now which is..? People who are part of the team.

Re: loomio

2013-04-17 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:06:51PM +0100, Marco Scannadinari wrote: If someone posts a proposal on gnome-devel, for example, it would not be efficient or easy for each user to give their approval: Yeah I love Here you clearly assume that it will be used for software development. If you want to

Re: loomio

2013-04-17 Thread אנטולי קרסנר
I agree, random people can't have the same influence on votes like the people actually seriously involved, but like Sri and Marco said, there are already existing cases in which such a system can be very useful. Seif offered to try it with the Gnome Music team, but anyone else who wants to give

Re: [GSoC '13]Gnome Tweak Tool UI Refresh Project

2013-04-17 Thread Allan Day
Hi Vishrut, I came up with some wireframes for the Tweak Tool [1], which I'd be happy to discuss. You should also make contact with John Stowers, who is the Tweak Tool maintainer. Best wishes, Allan [1]

Re: loomio

2013-04-17 Thread Marco Scannadinari
I think you're mixing up decisions with doing a study? E.g. you assume because of such a tool suddenly 'GNOME 3' will work different? (to be clear: I'm asking, not suggesting) No, I don't think that GNOME will suddenly become the perfect DE, but certain decisions, such as

Re: loomio

2013-04-17 Thread Marco Scannadinari
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:06:51PM +0100, Marco Scannadinari wrote: If someone posts a proposal on gnome-devel, for example, it would not be efficient or easy for each user to give their approval: Yeah I love Here you clearly assume that it will be used

Re: loomio

2013-04-17 Thread Andre Klapper
On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 17:24 +0100, Marco Scannadinari wrote: No, I don't think that GNOME will suddenly become the perfect DE, but certain decisions, such as the location of the close button on fullscreen apps, could be improved a lot and polls could be used as evidence for user testing or

Re: loomio

2013-04-17 Thread Jesse Hutton
Lets consider a concrete example. Before Gnome Shell was initially released, I (like many others) didn't like the lack of a power off option in the system menu (or anywhere on the desktop). I've been an on and off lurker on IRC for a while. I brought up the concern a few times perhaps. At one

Fwd: loomio

2013-04-17 Thread Jesse Hutton
(Apologies if this is a resend.) Lets consider a concrete example. Before Gnome Shell was initially released, I (like many others) didn't like the lack of a power off option in the system menu (or anywhere on the desktop). I've been an on and off lurker on IRC for a while. I brought up the

Re: loomio

2013-04-17 Thread Germán Póo-Caamaño
On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 13:10 -0400, Jesse Hutton wrote: Lets consider a concrete example. Before Gnome Shell was initially released, I (like many others) didn't like the lack of a power off option in the system menu (or anywhere on the desktop). I've been an on and off lurker on IRC for a

Re: loomio

2013-04-17 Thread Jesse Hutton
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Germán Póo-Caamaño g...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 13:10 -0400, Jesse Hutton wrote: Lets consider a concrete example. Before Gnome Shell was initially released, I (like many others) didn't like the lack of a power off option in the system

Re: loomio

2013-04-17 Thread Germán Póo-Caamaño
On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 14:55 -0400, Jesse Hutton wrote: On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Germán Póo-Caamaño g...@gnome.org wrote: On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 13:10 -0400, Jesse Hutton wrote: Lets consider a concrete example. Before Gnome Shell was initially

Re: loomio

2013-04-17 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 05:34:55PM +0100, Marco Scannadinari wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:06:51PM +0100, Marco Scannadinari wrote: If someone posts a proposal on gnome-devel, for example, it would not be efficient or easy for each user to give their approval: