Some recent changes

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 12:58 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:

> > I've personally seen a number of people new to the system do it, and
> > Bryan Clark (former GNOME interaction designer) mentioned it as a
> > problem he saw with the layout.
> 
> Folks coming from Windows are accustomed to the lower left screen area
> target bringing up the 'Start' menu, and I have witnessed skilled
> Windows users trying to use Fedora specifically, assuming the button
> would bring up a 'Start' menu-like UI, and instead getting confused when
> instead all their windows disappeared.

Sounds reasonable.

> I'd rather not make any remarks on the timing of the change, though.

The timing and lack of notice is the more important issue, here - the
fact that it doesn't seem like a really vital change is more an
aggravating factor in the lateness of the action.

As a poster in the forum discussion put it:

This seems to be a major change to gnome as it has been the same since
FC3.
My concerns are;

1. Is he distingisuting between a fix for current and new devl in rahide
that is frozen from changes?

2. Why and for what reasons were the desktop show and a reduction of
workspaces done?
Was there any discussion or even a warning somewhare?
destop list is not where rawhide users would be looking for changes in
post beta cycle.

Which is very close to what was said on this list, despite coming from
an entirely separate discussion which was at the time unaware of these
threads.

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