<quote who="Martin-�ric Racine"> > Rob Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Such rambling is more than unproductive; it actually causes severe > > injury to free software because few people enjoy being abused in this > > way. Always treat any posting to a public mailing list as though the > > developer you're criticizing were reading it; it's quite likely that > > this is indeed the case. > > Users also don't enjoy being abused by upstream's ever-changing file > selector, file browser and web browser, because this sort of drastic > change is disruptive;
We have had ONE change of file selector (GTK+ 2.2 to 2.4), ONE significant change to the default operation of the Nautilus file manager (GNOME 2.4 to 2.6) and ONE inclusion of a web browser into the official GNOME releases (Ephiphany in 2.4, note that we'd never shipped a web browser before). > just as soon as you thought you had found a comfortable desktop, > Pennington wrecks havoc into it by changing the basic functionalities all > over again. Havoc has nothing to do with it. There was a simple community consensus on these issues, *none* of them being instigated by Havoc. > The file selector in Gnome 2.4 *worked* and thus needed NO rewrite. One of the major complaints about GTK+ and GNOME since... forever... has been the old file selector. I'm sure that anyone even vaguely familiar with the GNOME project would be aware of that -> as I'm sure you are. :-) - Jeff -- OSCON 2004: Portland OR, USA http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ "It is said that there are only six jokes in the world, and I can assure you that we can only broadcast three of them..." - John Watt, the BBC's Head of Variety in the 30's
