On Sunday 26 March 2006 17:34, Dimi Paun wrote: > This is the crux of the issue: this problem does not have an obvious > correct solution. A normal approach would be "do no evil". That is, > there should be a hysteresis against changing well known behavior that > is tried, tested, and true. Experimental stuff like this should be > introduced gradually, with default to off, and only when it has been > proven in the field we may turn it on by default. Now we are in violent agreement :) > <offtopic> > Don't people find it funny that we, as a community, know all about > incremental improvements when it comes to patch management, but we behave > like righteous a--holes when it comes to imposing what we believe to be > the Right Way (TM) onto others? And hey, since we can now invoke the > Usability Principle, we are in the right to remove any way for the > luser to opt-out of our One True Way. Yup. I'm trying (I hope) to avoid this; as a long time self righteous arsehole, I reserve the right to self-deprecate at the drop of a hat. Otherwise I'm happy to defer .. > But I digress, we are not the target audience... > </offtopic> It's not off topic; we're trying to find a solution to a problem in Fedora (and in GNOME, KDE and other desktops, in the process). FWIW, you've made some damn good points, and I would like to thank you for your time rather than criticise. Thanks, Bill. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
