Hey Giovanni! Giovanni Campagna <[email protected]> wrote: > As one of the implementors of the current status icons, and current > developer of gnome-shell, I can tell it's a small can of worms, but that's > not what this is about. > Rather, what I'd like to point out is that, in my opinion, this needs more > thinking through before going straight to shipping. > I mean, I trust the design team and I value your experience in the field, > but this is another radical change, and it's quite different from our > competitors. > Unfortunately, we don't have the benefit of two years of betas, so if we > implement and deliver this 3.10, there is a risk of an impendance mismatch > between what's expected from the designs and theory behind them, and how the > user effectively react. Which would bring even more negative publicity to > GNOME. > This is generally a problem of every fast releasing project with little man > power, so it affected many of the features in 3.8 and before, but at least > at time we had the validation of other systems doing the same. > To me, a reasonable compromise (yet to decide if technically possible) would > be to have a "feature branch", that is not merged in master until after it's > thoroughly user tested. And that possibly gets punted to 3.12 or never, if > it turns out to be a bad idea.
Yeah, I'm aware that we need to tread carefully. I've actually spent quite a while sitting on these mockups, revisiting them and challenging them with different scenarios - you will also notice that they are pretty detailed. So yes, I'm in agreement with you about pushing this prematurely. Working in a branch seems like it could be a good solution. Allan _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
