On 12/21/2010 11:14 PM, Camilo Mesias wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 2:32 PM, twohot wrote: >> No. One default can be better than another. Even if you take a >> subjective approach and take a poll. You'll get a clear winner ... >> subjective as the result may appear, you have a more acceptable art. >> It is important to provide a generally accepted winner than a winner >> accepted by a few. > > I think the point is that the Fedora background and the Gnome one are > both likely to be technically excellent backgrounds. Users would get > along fine with either. A choice is more likely to be made on > religious grounds and any poll you take will be heavily influenced by > the opinions of the people polled. There is nothing religious here, is all about identity, marketing and strategy. > If a user choice is really such a horrible UI then someone will have > to decide on a default. The person responsible will risk alienating > some people. The 'losers' will have to swallow their pride and we can > all move on to something that users will actually care about. Ideally we would NOT vote (yes, I also think this is a bad way to make the decision) but decide by consensus. We as a team tried to operate this way all along (F10 was a bad exception we don't want to repeat). -- nicu :: http://nicubunu.ro :: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
