Hi Owen Thanks a lot for expressing reasonable and really sane point of view!
> * There will also be some people that want to use gnome-panel because > they aren't ready to change. While we want to encourage people who > have capable hardware to update and use the new experience, there > are multiple advantages to accommodating such users in fallback > mode as well rather than telling them to use GNOME 2. That sounds unbelievably correct! > - We don't have to worry about parallel install issues for GNOME > libraries. > > - It reduces pressure on us to provide support for old versions > of GNOME. Hear, hear! > * If (*if*) it doesn't suck up a lot of developer time, I don't see any > harm in continuing to provide gnome-applets. Yes, I suppose it could > be considered weird if there's a way of adding a pair of eyes to > the panel in fallback mode but not in the full GNOME 3 experience, > but honestly, if something thinks that their day is not complete > without a pair of eyes in their panel, I'd rather let them use > fallback mode than argue with them that they are wrong. I know exactly who you're talking about:) Thanks again, I really hope the release team would consider your opinion seriously. Sergey _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
