On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 04/11/2014 09:01 AM, Eric H. Christensen wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 09:42:02AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: >>>> >>>> ... Therefore, I'd like to appeal >>>> >>>> to our Friends foundation. I hope we can find a middle ground instead of >>>> staking out extreme positions. >>> >>> >>> Coming to the middle, I'd like to suggest what I suggested in yesterday's >>> meeting (which was completely ignored). >>> >>> Gnome could use a menu in the 'All Settings' menu that would allow users >>> to add their own links as well as add some predefined links (such as Google >>> apps and Facebook). These would be disabled by default but the user could >>> easily activate them and include them on their system. >> >> >> It wasn't ignored. In fact, that was close to what I had suggested too, and >> I was (and am) in favor of it. However, it seemed us 2 were the only ones >> in favor it, and at least 2 explicitly mentioning being against that (iirc) > > I agree it wasn't ignored. Reading back in the logs, however, doesn't > show anyone explicitly against it. There was some discussion on > opt-in vs. opt-out, but the specific suggestion wasn't voted on. > Considering the thing we did vote on is more abstract and broadly > applicable, and this is an implementation detail of the UI, I don't > think it required a Board vote. It's a fine suggestion to pass along > though. While not exactly what the suggestion was from Sparks, Kalev pointed me to upstream GNOME bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725002. The gnome-software application now distinguishes webapps from native apps. I find it encouraging that the upstream designers are already looking at this before FESCo even contacted them. josh p.s. I also updated FESCo ticket 1273 to point them to the technical UI details. _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
