On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 18:46 +0100, Claudio Saavedra wrote: > Hi Johannes, > > On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 17:47 +0100, Johannes H. Jensen wrote: > (snip) > > The Change Password dialog in About Me is, in my opinion, > > unsatisfactory. > > Any mail that starts saying something like that, will be probably > ignored, because it sounds too agressive.
Oh, I'm very sorry. That was by no means my intention! I'm glad you pointed this out for me, as I was not aware. All I wanted was to start a discussion about how to improve the dialog :) > > I would suggest you: > > - For each of the independient problems you see in the software, open an > independient bug in bugzilla (http://bugzilla.gnome.org). Of > course, before doing so, check if exists discussion about them, and > join them (browsing mailing lists would help, too). OK, I will do that. I just thought that discussion like this was more suited on the mailing-lists, rather than the bugzilla. > > - Try to avoid to say that existent software *is bad, ugly, or it > makes your little sister scream*, but to directly say > what could be improved, why, and how. Mockups and/or patches would > improve the probability of your opinion to be considered. Yes, I agree that my choice of words sound a bit aggressive. I did, however, write directly what I thought could be improved an why... > > - If you want to provide mockups, don't do it in .glade format, but > screenshots. Only provide the .glade files if you have a patch that > will actually need them. OK, screenshots available at http://joh.deworks.net/password-dialog/screenshots/ > > I hope you will find my suggestions useful and will find a more suitable > way to start your contributions to GNOME. Remember, everyone's help is > welcome, but being polite and doing it the right way is very important. I do, thank you :) -- Johannes H. Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> deworks
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