On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And login times? Impacted, not impacted? Application performance? > (Granted this last one is probably hard to get at, but it still seems > important to measure- we are, after all, considering something here > that could impact every single application.) > > Tangentially, I'm disappointed with the 'a user can spend 10 seconds > to just turn it off' school of thought- that is not how we are > supposed to do things around here. We *fix* problems instead of > requiring users to somehow magically find the right set of options to > fix it for themselves. We know it'll take far longer than 10 seconds > to discover how to turn it off and stop paying the price. In fact, we > know most users will never discover how to do it. They'll just assume > GNOME is slow, if this does in fact slow GNOME down. So to say > 'they'll just spend 10 seconds to turn it off' is not a GNOME-y way of > thinking at all.
By the way, read this as opposition to turning it on by default. But I'd rather see the problems fixed and it eliminated as a run-time option altogether than for us to say 'we're shipping a broken user experience, but hey, the users have an option to unbreak it.' Luis _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
