On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 08:15 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > 2008/2/28, Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > > From: Jamie McCracken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: gnome-announce-list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Tracker 0.6.5 > > First of all, congrats to the new release. > But I also have a few critical remarks: > > Adding new translatable strings a few hours before release is not nice > to our translators. This has happened before and also with 0.6.5 (see > the tracker-applet preferences dialog)
well ubuntu needs to check tracker is ok and is not a hog before keeping it in for the LTS hardy I did not want to delay much further > > The tracker-applet preferences dialog looks a bit odd (e.g. the > centered close button, no close button in the menu decoration etc.) > Could someone with HIG experience please take a look at it. patches welcome for this > > There is a more fundamental problem with the tracker-applet > preferences dialog though. > As soon as you check the visibility button, the applet is gone. As the > only option to reach the configuration dialog is via the context menu > of the applet, the user will have real difficulties now (he either has > to generate new files to make tracker-applet show up or edit > .config/tracker/tracker-applet.cfg manually. Neither of these options > is acceptable imho). > people who turn it off are unlikely to want it back IMO perhaps add a hotkey to toggle this? > We had this discussed briefly before, but what happened to the idea to > merge those settings into tracker-preferences? too much work - it would involve adding dbus methods to tell the applet stuff has changed. When glib has a decent config system with notifications then we can do it easily > > I also noticed, that the visibility option is reset, each time > trackerd is restarted. bug or feature? should not be reset I can roll out a 0.6.6 for translatable strings this weekend + any other bugs that pop up in the next few days > > Cheers, > Michael > > _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
