Forwarding to the desktop list as these things are best discussed in a public forum. For the record, I made these changes as there seemed to be a general consensus on the long CCSM thread that they (or something similar) would be welcome. Let's see what people think.
Thanks, -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio Ubuntu Developer <https://launchpad.net/~andrewsomething> Debian Maintainer <http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=a.starr.b%40gmail.com> PGP/GPG Key ID: D53FDCB1 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Krytarik Raido <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:35 PM Subject: Your recent patch of CompizConfig Settings Manager. To: Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <[email protected]> Hi Andrew! I'm one of the maintainers of the Ubuntu community's most popular and comprehensive guide for troubleshooting Unity. And I've just become aware of your recent patch of CompizConfig Settings Manager in regard to showing a warning message upon opening it, and removing the option the disable - and enable! - the Unity Plugin from the main page. I'm fine with the first one, a welcome warning to the unexperienced user, and no negative side-effects, as it can also be disabled; but reg. the latter, please consider the actual use cases of the Unity Plugin checkbox on the main page of CCSM: - Deliberately disabling the Unity Plugin in order to use any other panel/dock in the Unity session (yes, one should better set up a separate session for that, but who does that?! - definitely not the same unexperienced users this patch is aiming to protect). - Re-enabling the Unity Plugin after being disabled as a matter of conflict/dependency, for example, the most ubiquitous cause, when trying to enable the Desktop Cube. These users are then eventually prevented from being able to easily and transparently re-enable the Unity Plugin! - Indication if the Unity Plugin is enabled or not; transparency. Surely, I can easily add a note to our troubleshooting guide that in case the Unity Plugin is disabled, you first need to click on its button on the main page of CCSM to be eventually able to re-enable it, but there are loads of advices strewn all over the Ubuntu Forums and other places that wouldn't work anymore then. So considering both the use cases of the checkbox and the to be expected lack of hints on how to actually check - and change - the state of the Unity Plugin (at least in the first couple of weeks), this patch actually wouldn't help unexperienced users, it would achieve the opposite, virtually hinder them from both using a different panel/dock and re-enabling the Unity Plugin when disabled as a result of trying to enable the Desktop Cube - one of the first things a great deal of users is doing after installing Ubuntu. Sorry for this wordy message, btw., I'm just trying to make you get this right. :D Regards, Krytarik -- This message was sent from Launchpad by Krytarik Raido (https://launchpad.net/~krytarik) using the "Contact this user" link on your profile page (https://launchpad.net/~andrewsomething). For more information see https://help.launchpad.net/YourAccount/ContactingPeople -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
