On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:54:46 +1100, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <quote who="Bryan Clark"> > > > And just to take the flames point head on, no flames do not generally mean > > that what was done was the wrong thing, they generally mean that very > > vocal people are upset that things changed. People obviously fear change, > > if we get rid of Run Applications the desktop won't come crashing to a > > halt. Instead we should expect to get bug reports on missing .desktop > > files and maybe people will get together to finally create a menu editor? > > But since we have this nice band-aid(tm) out in the open we won't get > > those bug reports and no one will think it's too much pain to live without > > a decent menu editor. > > Removing the item won't fix the lack of menu editor, it won't fix the lack > of .desktop files. It won't encourage a mass fix of these issues. It won't > be a step in the right direction to get us away from the shitty execution > model we're stuck with at the moment. It'll just be another example of our > ability to punch our users in the face without making real progress. > > I'm pretty jacked off that my comments have been slighted by reference, > without direct discussion. That's pretty lame.
I belive you may be referring to my email. I regretted sending it not too long after it was gone. You are right that it was really lame. I wish I could sugar coat it somehow, but the best I can do is chalk it up to a bad day and apologize to both you and Murray. Sorry. However, can I just state that the way this thread has turned really scares me? This thread sounds to me like a step towards design by committee and removal of authority from maintainers (the thread sounds like a total rejection of the idea altogether rather than as a rejection of the patch for 2.10). Perhaps there's an important difference between what's occuring in this thread and that, but I'm missing it. Elijah _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
