On 1/17/07, Cody A.W. Somerville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This feature clearly improves usability. The number of people who would > appreciate this feature, I believe, would outweigh the number of people who > would not appreciate it. For those who don't like it, they can, as you said, > easily disable it. > > > I am with you, don't do stuff unless asked or configured, > > Why not force the user to manually mount their drivers? Why don't we just > provide the packages and let the users configure the system from scratch? > Why automatically configure X when the use can just write the xorg.conf file > necessary for X to work? Or better yet, Why not make users patch and compile > their own kernels? > > > So, just like we removed special desktop icons, I'd prefer not enabling > this tools by default. > > This should also be enabled once there is an option in the mcs desktop > configuration plugin to disable it. It is one of the most asked questions on > #xubuntu. > > As for documentation, easier said then done. Don't just say "we'll write the > documentation for it" until you're ready to actually write the documentation > yourself. > > Sorry if this e-mail comes across as a little aggressive but I'm a little > taken back by the only rational being presented to disable this feature is > "I don't like it". I bet people upstream would be disappointed that you > would discard their hard work so easily. > > -1 for disabling this feature by default. > > Thanks, > > Cody A.W. Somerville >
I agree with you completely. We shouldn't assume that user will know how to do this or that, when many of them don't even know how to create a folder or save a file. Jmak -- 2007 Calendar http://www.lulu.com/content/512622 http://jozmak.googlepages.com/ -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
