On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
Gah! *don't* read this as opposition, sorry. > 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
