Recent changes to gnome-panel

John Poelstra poelstra at redhat.com
Tue Oct 20 15:52:04 UTC 2009


Adam Williamson said the following on 10/20/2009 08:07 AM Pacific Time:
> Hi, guys. This is a reply to the 'Some recent changes' thread, but I
> wasn't subscribed at that time so can't reply to it directly.
> 
> Echoing the concerns raised by Jóhann Guðmundsson, I wanted to pass on
> some discussion of these changes from the forums:
> 
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=232166
> 
> there's concern that this kind of highly-visible behaviour change
> shouldn't be introduced this late in the cycle. When I talked to
> Matthias on IRC he seemed to think the changes to remove the 'show
> desktop' button and reduce the default number of workspaces from 4 to 2
> should affect only new users, but the forum discussion seems to indicate
> they actually affect existing users too. Is this considered a bug?
> 

I would still like to understand better how these decisions are being 
made.  Is there a desktop meeting or SIG that decides these things?  Do 
we just take whatever the defaults are from Gnome upstream?

John




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