-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This "bug" was brought to my attention when I recently tried out Ubuntu 10.04 alpha 2 to see what new improvements Ubuntu and Gnome in general had. Upon going through my usual routine of setting preferences to my liking, I could not find the option to put back the menu icons in the 3 main menu's provided by Gnome in the top panel. Only some of the icons are shown, others are not. There used to be a setting to bring them all back. This was previously just an annoyance to have to complete the look of the menu's. I went to #ubuntu+1 on Freenode and asked if this lack of preference was just a temporary setback in the alpha developemnt of Ubuntu. I was pointed to this "bug": https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592756 Reading the first comment: "Discussed many times. We should remove the interface tab. Basically everthing there is a user experience design cop-out. It only belongs in a tweak UI tool - - but only if someone cares enough to write one." "Discussed many times" Discussed where? Were Gnome users asked for feedback on this decision? "It only belongs in a tweak UI tool - but only if someone cares enough to write one." User experience preferences for gnome should now be the responsibility of third party developers who might or might not develop tools to put back user experience preferences which gnome developers created and then removed in the first place? The rest of the comments in "bug" are people disagreeing with the original developer in his decision to remove the preference competely. Save for 1 developer who agree'd and implemented the descision stating "majority of users". What majority of users? So far I'm seeing most people disagreeing with the descision. Not to mention, I don't see the majority of users requesting preferences be removed regardless if they are of interest to them or not. Why this descision? Is this preference really that much of a bane on the system resources? Why are we removing half the icons from the menu's making them looked half finished and unpolished? Why not remove all icons and be done with it? I voiced my opinion in the comments of this bug just like the "majority of users" were doing. My comment and one other was removed and my account on bugzilla disabled. So, where does a user go to voice his opinions on this type of developer decision where said developers will read it and hopefully impact the descision? Where can a user submit feedback on bringing back a preference that was removed? Can we please get this preference put back? I don't care where it is, but we shouldn't have to wait for a third party tool to reimplement preferences to finish the look of the menu's that have already existed but were removed. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJLgMo+AAoJEO6Yy60Eea9+p8EH/RcRxGYUC1uqQoBs1JJMuOpJ s63RrSJWQQMxQ4rzYLUyk+97wX8rstLR3EXOhvNk6rSCnBhFperBvihQBJODEpSQ QhM9jl4U35KbJ1pRFDNzV0VMKqa7CSjQVvWfxUm/cD3WMsqXeazEjK3wUjRL9OYJ nMYchI3cLA6srhdDj9qFJasCmaABH5fvJ6qlcOQR1Ph1nUW/JDFlhR9wHVHpT8cT OQNHH8DL3kqOTVV8pVU28ECQ2RSunUJWOA7Szu4gDgckD1JxvilugZRdGaUc1PB5 q2ouI1To58lbo9ynt9utjJ790KysKMAYkloHYZ75sU5/KKVsxSP9esGL/GvQhhg= =FTQW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list