On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 00:27 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 04:51 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 23:33 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 03:58 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > > > I think the point was that the arguments are already on that list where, > > > > > for the record, highly respected GNOME, KDE, XFCE developers already > > > > > reviewed this without objections. > > > > > > > > Well, I am long enough into this business to have an opinion on my own. > > > > > > Again: if you have an opinion then participate upstream because that is > > > where we want to solve a problems if possible. Developers in general are > > > not happy to repeat the same answers over and over again especially to > > > people "too busy" to participate in the right forum. > > You've got it, I don't have the time to participate "in every possible, > > arbitrary GUI-forum". But I am taking myself the time to warn Fedora > > devs when a Fedora dev wants to push something into Fedora, "because > > some upstream" says so. > > If you had bothered to read the thread on xdg-list (which would have > taken less than an hour) you would have found that the "Fedora dev [who] > wants to push something into Fedora" is the same person who proposed the > this solution on xdg-list and, for the record, got lots of feedback from > people affiliated with KDE, XFCE, SUSE, Mandriva, Red Hat, LTSP and > others. In the same breath, Alex (aka the "Fedora dev"), is upstream for > the Gnome bits (Nautilus and the VFS) using this proposal. I am well aware, who this Fedora dev is - It is exactly the reason why I spoke up now. I say: Alex, Matthias wake up and take off your shades. You are going to commit something "stupid"! > It's fine to give feedback on what is flowing into Fedora (because > sometimes we want to change defaults), this is partly what we do on this > list and the Project encourages it, but if you do so without having done > your homework about you're just wasting lots of peoples time. I did read the link you gave, and saw a GUI focused community nodding off an "seemingly innocent" proposal, without fundamental discussion. I say: They missed the lack of usefulness, because they are too focused. Ralf > Please > don't do that. Thanks. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
