On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 18:03 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote: > On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 05:55 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote: > > Hey, > Hi, > > > For now we want to stay with upstream Clearlooks. > > > For a while now, I have been wondering what "we" stands for here... The > discussion seems to mostly happen off-list. 'We' refers to the design and production "team" for the desktop spin. At the moment, this is mostly me and Jon. Some of the discussion does happen off-list, which is somewhat unfortunate. This tends to occur for a few reasons: * We happen to sit in an office within 10 feet of each other * Design is ideally a high bandwidth activity * We often have impromptu discussions * So we can focus and make some decisions (almost always after talking with upstream, the Fedora community, other smart people from other distributions, etc) I have tried to keep this list in the loop on potentially controversial changes, such as the GIMP change. [...] > PS: I'd really like to know who has the formal authority in the desktop > design area -- is it the design-team, is it the Desktop SIG for GNOME, > KDE SIG for KDE, ... or combination of both? IIRC the switch to Mist (at > that time from bluecurve via incomplete Echo) was made by the > predecessor to design-team. On the other hand this very discussion seems > to be mostly Desktop SIG centered. While I don't have any preference as > where the authority should be, I'd like it to be crystal clear... I > certainly don't want to have a ping-pong between e.g. design-team > switching icon theme to gnome-colors [1][2] while desktop SIG switching > it to gnome-icon-theme... In Fedora, we are not very good at 'crystal clear' and 'formal authority', which sometimes has the unfortunate effect of letting inertia and diverging interests prevail... The closest you will probably get to a 'formal authority' is the first few lines of the kickstart file defining the desktop spin: # Maintained by the Fedora Desktop SIG: # http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Desktop # mailto:fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx Matthias -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
