Recent changes to gnome-panel

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 08:52:04AM -0700, John Poelstra wrote:
> 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?

I also would like an answer to John's question, which is an honest
one.  Matthias already indicated that the changes made in the panel
are particular to our package, and not part of upstream.

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