On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 08:50:20AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Miles Bader"> > > > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I have long since acknowledged that any real sanity and innovation is > > >> coming from the GNOME people and *not* Debian. We just package up their > > >> stuff and make sure the underlying kernel and GNU userland work. So I > > >> believe your remarks here are quite off the limit. > > > > > > The new gnome way means that we are not supposed to use deep directory > > > structures, and that we should not use tab completition. > > > > Is this the "maintain user satisfaction by pruning your userbase" > > strategy? > > No, that's "Sven having a whinge on a list that won't get him any results".
Sorry, but i don't believe so. Do you really think that all the users should be going to the gnome list and voice their stuff there ? Sorry, but i can't do that, my mailing list reading time allotment is already full, and i believe it is the duty of the debian gnome maintainers to forward those stuff, at least that is what i do for my packages. > > Are there any interesting forks of Gnome around? > > So, you're having a discussion on debian-gtk-gnome, which is not a general > interface with upstream, and you're not getting any results... and then you > decide you want to use a fork of GNOME? Well, if it is not a discussion with upstream, at least it is a discussion with the debian gnome maintainers. > Perhaps, instead, it would make sense to talk about the changes with > upstream, and have the problem fixed! Note that at no stage has upstream > said "this is not a problem" -> it's thoroughly understood that it is (but Well the impression i got was that this is the way it is, and that anyone discontent with it is a power user, and should be able to hit Ctr+L or set some gconf stuff. > you'd have to be prepared for the possibility that it may not be solved in > exactly the way you'd prefer it). Yeah, thanks all the same. > So please, instead of having an extended, pointless thread (with grinding > and gnashing of teeth) on this list, take your concerns upstream where they > can actually be addressed. And add another list to the ones i read, no thanks. I will never get time to do packaging if i go this way. Friendly, Sven Luther
