natan yellin wrote on 21/03/08 07:32: > > On 3/20/08, *Federico Mena Quintero* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >... > > The problem we've had so far is that someone does a good analysis of > > login time, things get fixed, but then over time things get > > gradually worse.
Mozilla uses Tinderbox to constantly rebuild software, and then tests each successful build to measure how long it takes to start up (amongst other things). <http://tinyurl.com/2shnre> This lets developers see performance regressions as soon as they happen. Perhaps something similar is possible for Gnome. > > It would be nice to be able to get a fresh profile > > at any moment, just to see that things didn't get screwed up. A "Guest" account, which has a fresh profile on every login, would also be a useful feature for those cases where I lend my laptop to someone for a few minutes so they can check their e-mail. (I don't want to have to set up a new user account for someone who probably won't use that computer again.) >... > > Ubuntu's new "brainstorm" page is pretty cool. Would you have time > > to implement something similar for GNOME? I quite like the idea of > > a "digg for feature ideas" that we could reuse in various places. > > It would be useful, but perhaps it would be better to just get our own > category over there. The number of people who use Gnome without it being supplied as part of their operating system is tiny, so it would likely make little sense for Gnome to have its own Brainstorm site. However, Ubuntu is not the only operating system that uses Gnome, and it would be unreasonable for (for example) people interested in proposing an idea for Gnome in Opensuse to be pointed to an Ubuntu site. > If we have our own brainstorm website, a lot of > the ideas are going to be duplicates and there'll be two places to > discuss and vote on everything. >... We already have that problem in Ubuntu itself, with at least four different places to propose ideas (Brainstorm, Launchpad Bugs, Launchpad Blueprints, and various pages on the Ubuntu wiki). Ideally there would be a way of linking and syncing feature requests between Ubuntu and the various other operating systems that use Gnome -- similar to how Launchpad links and syncs the status of bug reports in bugzilla.gnome.org and other bug trackers. However, the first step would be to have a semi-standard way of representing feature requests, and that hasn't happened yet (bug : bug report :: feature request : ???). Cheers -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
