Peter Whittaker wrote: > On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 19:55 +0000, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > >> I think it's important that we not treat the OS specially, >> > > Mark, thanks for your comments. I think this one area where there is > considerable disagreement: The OS is different - when the computer needs > to tell me something, I probably shouldn't ignore it. Think firealarm. > Yes, that's true. But there are some apps that have fire alarms too - imagine, for example, an app which monitors your RAID array and alerts you to failures and issues.
My point is that we should have clear guidelines about what constitutes each mode of operation, and we should follow those as rigorously with the OS as we would hope apps do, as well. As soon as we make exceptions for ourself we are weakening our argument, a bit like politicians who give themselves raises and take their expenses out of the public eye at the same time as they are ridiculing bankers for their pay. I *think* we're in agreement here :-) Mark -- [Jaunty] Update Notifier icon would provide useful status information https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332945 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
