On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 14:33 +0200, Kalle Vahlman wrote: > On 12/14/05, Josue Farde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > thanks kalle > > > > but does that means that there isn't a responsable person for all > > that??? > > > > GNOME is open source, driven by the community :) > > I'm not actually sure if anyone has the ultimate power regarding this > matter, it really needs to be a consensus.
Well now, actually, we wallowed in our community consensus attempts for two release cycles without getting anything accomplished. Everybody liked a different shade of blue. The insanity finally stopped when I put my foot down and declared ClearLooks our new default theme. I don't maintain gnome-themes, gtk-engines, or any other relevant package. What qualified me to make that call is that I lead our documentation efforts. I was tired of the screenshot madness, so I made the call. Any proposal to change the default theme is guaranteed to be met with a long mailing list discussion about why people like what, how that shade of yellow reminds them of a traumatic childhood experience, and how the radius of the rounded corners shouldn't be determined without extensive psychological testing of our users. End of the day, somebody just has to make the decision. There are maybe a dozen people in the Gnome community that can actually make that decision and have people listen to them. And I'm not likely to take up that fight a second time. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
