On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Luca Ferretti <[email protected]> wrote: > Il giorno gio, 12/05/2011 alle 19.12 -0400, Matthias Clasen ha scritto: >
> > BTW "pet project"... IMHO "pet" is something that plays down the merits, > isn't it? Yeah, a little. Sorry. What I wanted to allude to with the term 'pet' is that third-party panels tend to focus on the narrow needs of the project they belong to, and expose a lot of special purpose options that seem important to the developers who are deeply involved in that project. Some examples of this that we've already seen are: - color management (do you know what a perceptual rendering intent is ?) - kerberos tickets (would you know whether to request a proxiable or a forwardable ticket ?) When looking at it from the whole-desktop perspective, many of those options are typically better off in the special-purpose app than in the panel, while the few relevant options might better be located in another, already-existing panel. Figuring this out is hard, and involves talking to designers; it will only happen if we put a hurdle that forces people to do it. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
