I posted this to the Ayatana Team list ([email protected]), but they suggested it was better suited to you. You can see the original at https://lists.launchpad.net/ayatana/msg00395.html
"The second task is developing the desktop to improve the user experience, both by improving the usability of our existing desktop and developing innovating new interface concepts." -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam Shouldn't that mean that the Desktop Experience Team should have some oversight, or at least, be made aware of, certain highly visible projects? For example, the slideshow that will show during the Ubiquity install for Karmic (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/ubiquity-slideshow) will be the first impression that many new users will have of Ubuntu. Shouldn't the Desktop Experience Team at least keep an eye on - and at most, lend some design and communication skills and polish to - this project? If left to their own devices, I'm afraid the project will only produce a very 'rinky-dink', amateurish outcome that will not leave a good first impression. I've already tried to lend my design opinions at https://lists.launchpad.net/ubiquity-slideshow/maillist.html, but to little or no avail. :-( I could suggest other projects as well, but I'm curious what people think. Shouldn't The Desktop Experience Team have some level of participation in highly visible (to the end-user) projects, so that good, consistent, well-designed 'look and feel' is persistent throughout the Ubuntu experience?
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