On 8 June 2011 09:09, Bryce Harrington <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 08:45:38AM +0100, Matthew East wrote: >> On 8 June 2011 02:58, Bryce Harrington <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 11:03:12AM +0100, Matthew East wrote: >> >> I'm taking this opportunity to post a link to this comment on the >> >> proposed switch to lightDM from Matthew Garrett, in case people >> >> reading here haven't seen it, it seems relevant to this discussion and >> >> I haven't seen it mentioned before. >> >> >> >> http://mjg59.livejournal.com/136274.html >> > >> > tl;dr version: "Every wart is earned in the process of fixing a bug; >> > those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it, etc." Fairly bog >> > standard rant against doing something new. >> >> Actually, to be fair, I don't think that it is at that kind of level. >> It's not just a criticism of the concept of using something >> lightweight, the post looks specifically at differences between the >> competing software, features and design policies. > > Specifically? > > Boiling Matt's post down this is what I'm reading: > > 1. NIH > 2. It doesn't start a GNOME session > 3. Doesn't have arbitrary shiny stuff like slidy effects > 4. Auto-update when users are created or deleted > 5. Accessibility functionality UI > 6. Gratuitously drawing a clock > 7. Handle power policy via gnome-power-manager rather than via upower
Well, your second post is a bit more like a rebuttal of the blog post than your first one was, and you've more or less stated the points that are made (except for point 6, which isn't really made), although I don't think you've really taken much time rebutting the reasoning behind points 2 and 7 (which seem to be the main focus of the post). For my part, I don't have the technical knowledge to even have an opinion on the issues raised, and I certainly can't participate in the discussion in any meaningful way. I have 100% faith in the decision makers and implementers in this team to get this right. As I mentioned originally, I just wanted to bring the post to the attention of the right people, as I hadn't seen it mentioned. -- Matthew East http://www.mdke.org gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
