Since user interface changes (are supposed to) go by the user interface team
(some earlier thread required that), is it not part of their responsibility,
to answer cross platform questions such as this one?
☆PhistucK


On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 08:00, Ben Goodger (Google) <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> +1. It'd be good to involve experts from other platforms early in the
> process too even if the implementation is done later, so that the
> design considers local requirements.
>
> -Ben
>
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Mohamed Mansour<[email protected]> wrote:
> > I believe we should not close the tracker associated to the CL if a UI
> tweak
> > should be done in all platforms, and its up to the developer to know who
> to
> > delegate that task to. We shouldn't force anyone to develop this, we
> should
> > properly tag the issue tracker and add proper labels. As well, we should
> > properly cc people who are more active in that platform, so they will
> know
> > what is missing.
> > I don't know what a good solution is to cross platform development,
> unless
> > everyone should produce code in all three platforms whenever they work on
> a
> > patch or feature.
> > - Mohamed Mansour
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Nico Weber <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I happened to look at a CL today that adds a "Really delete all
> >> passwords?" dialog on Windows ( http://codereview.chromium.org/155291
> >> ). The patch was done by someone relatively new to the project (which
> >> is of course great). Sadly, neither the patch author nor one of the
> >> reviewers mentioned that this change might have to be done on the
> >> other platforms as well. As it happens, it's not necessary on OS X,
> >> but it might be required on Linux.
> >>
> >> What's out approach to make sure that such UI tweaks reach all
> >> platforms? Do we require that contributors who do a UI tweak implement
> >> it on all three platforms? Do we require that contributors who do such
> >> a change open bugs for the platforms they don't do the change on and
> >> hope someone else will do the change on the other platforms? Or do we
> >> simply not worry about this too much, as it doesn't happen that often
> >> anyway?
> >>
> >> Just curious.
> >> Nico
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > >
> >
>
> >
>

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