On 12/04/2013 05:33 PM, Bruno Benitez wrote: > Hello Richard, as I understand from the meetings we have held, if > there is enough need of it our developers can make a fix through the > backport channel.
Speaking as a project manager (in a different field), I have every sympathy with this point of view... > It is very sad that we have this issue in first place, but control > over sound was available and lots of tutorials on how to fix it > where also available, if users would abandon just for this cause > there is no much else we can do. ...speaking as a psychologist, I would say that it may be useful for developers to understand that users *do* abandon distros for this kind of thing, and for even smaller ones. Their reasoning is that "if the developers can't get the small things right," (and they would view a plugin indicator as a "small thing"), "then there is little hope of the big things being right." It's a frighteningly brutal viewpoint, and when it happens in a commercial environment, a damaging one. The British have a phrase for it: "to spoil the ship for a pennyworth of tar" (from the days when wooden ships needed waterproofing with tar). On the other hand, it acts as a filter: users who do not have the inclination or skill to find a fix will leave the community. In the long term this may reduce the demand for support. > In any case the fix for the plugin indicators will be included in > 14.04 and it will be an LTS, so that would be the recommended > solution to anyone, just wait a few months. A new user probably won't wait a few months to get a sound indicator working. They'll give up and install something else. ///Peter -- xubuntu-devel mailing list xubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
