On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 07.12.2010, 08:50 -0500 schrieb Jared K. Smith: >> 2010/12/6 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg@xxxxxxxxx>: >> > What does this mean for other *DE and various community within the project? >> >> In short, nothing different than things have been for the past couple of years. > > Some examples of what this means: > > * Desktop SIG defines the default GTK theme and hardcodes the > theme as dependency. > * Desktop SIG defines gnome-icon-theme as the default icon theme > and hardcodes it too. > * These two pull in other gnome packages. It is impossible to > install a desktop without having fedora-gnome-theme or > gnome-icon-theme > * Some more examples of painful dependency bloat: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=depchain > * Removal of hal-storage just a few days before beta freeze. > * Removal of the legacy icon names shortly before beta freeze > resulting in many missing icons. > * Removal of the notification area which and the resulting API > changes in libnotify 0.7.0 breaks all other desktop bug > gnome-shell. > * Change from Nodoka to Clearlooks. Many people objected, after > FPL spoke up the GNOME SIG promised to revisit the decision and > keep us informed. This did not happen. > * Black notifications that looked like a Ubuntu ripp-of. Again > many people objected, but again GNOME SIG did not care. * They randomly update packages without notification or care of any other dependency within the group. Peter _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
