James Dowden wrote: > I had thought this was just a bug in the beta version, but I did not > know which package to report it against. Now I've read this and I am > totally outraged by this deliberate regression. > > As for Mark Shuttleworth's ludicrous assumption that only coding experts > want the previous default behavior, it shows a distinct need to get out > more. I am not a coder, and I'm not a particular fan of pasting half- > understood unsupported (talk about brazenness!) commands into a > terminal, but I do want a system that works. > > This sort of half-baked dogfood belongs in some PPA so that it can be > properly criticized, not in a release. Then we could have had the > discussions about the Settings button on Update Manager not doing what > it says and so on in a proper way. > > Instead of devs coming on here and arrogantly marking things as > "Invalid" and "Won't Fix", they should pause for a moment and realize > that they have abused process to create a mess. The correct response > would be to apologize to the users and issue the old version as a > security fix (after all, it delays vital updates!), whilst restarting > the development process after a more community-oriented fashion. > > If such an apology is not forthcoming, we should concluded that the devs > concerned's injection of code that sabotages functionality is malicious, > that is to say a virus rather than a bug, and we should seek to have > their write access to the repos withdrawn. > @James... a bit too harsh there pal... i'm one among the users who are vocal here , against the new change, but asking the devs for an apology, is way out there!!!
i'm sure the devs wanted to improve the OS, but maybe this just wasnt a good move, but atleast we have the gconf options. -- [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
