2008/3/9, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 01:13 +0100, Mark wrote: > > 2008/3/8, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > Here's a little secret..setting a severity higher as the reporter > > > doesn't mean a maintainer will agree that your issue is of significant > > > severity to be bumped up in the priority list. Don't get your > > > feathers ruffled if noone responds any faster if you set the severity > > > to high. It's not a crasher or dataloss issue, so don't expect anyone > > > to put this sort of issue ahead of things like that. I personally > > > would consider setting this to a high severity as an abuse of bugzilla > > > reporting, and if you did it to a bug against one of my packages I'd > > > pretty much instantly make a point of remembering that I need to > > > re-calibrate any high severity reports from you as low severity... but > > > that's just me. > > > > it was just a _question_ calm down. > > > Everybody's calm here, Jeff is just trying to give you some insight into > the way the bug recipient thinks. You could take the fact that he > answered you at great length as a sign of feeling it was worth his time > to carry on the conversation. ;-) Many people here are passionate about > the details, don't sweat it. > > > > > There is a desktop list..specifically for discussion of desktop issues > > > that require discussion. > > > I think you jumped the gun a little bit by calling for a vote before > > > making the effort to discuss this on the desktop-list. > > > > Sorry, didn't realize. And i don't have ALL the fedora lists in my > > gmail to mail to.. gmails space is limited you know ;) but i believe i > > can send mails to those lists without subscribing right? > > > I've got about 24 fedora-* mailing lists coming in, and no end to my > storage in sight, I'd say you should keep subscribing! :-D > > > > > Calling for votes like this before an appropriate discussion in the > > > appropriate location (desktop-list in this case, if the maintainer > > > doesn't respond in a timely manner..give it a week).. reeks of an > > > effort to abuse governance structures to force the introduction of pet > > > features. And I have a big problem with that, and I make absolutely no > > > excuses for coming down hard on people who do it... because it needs > > > to be done to discourage a tidal wave of other people from doing it > > > for their pet features and bogging down structures like fesco with > > > wasting time on this sort of stuff. > > > > I already agreed on that all. no need to repeat yourself. You where > > clear the first time. > > > We all have different ways of "speaking" tonally in emails. I suggest a > sort of sedative filter for everyone, lest you be unduly ruffled by > someone else's tone. We're all here because we care. > > To stay a little on the topic, though, I have to say that I've never > been bothered by having larger thumbnails than icons, and find them very > useful. Unviewables like folders ought to be small, since they are > easily identified contextually by their icons, and the name is the only > real differentiator. I will just wait and see what happens with the RFE bug that i submitted. Right now i'm gonna try and get fedora 9 to work to write a truncating patch for nautilus. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
