No more right click terminal

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

>Asking someone in a condescending tone to follow a 200-emails/day
>list to have a say in about 1 decision a year that they care
>about is just aggravating. For everybody. Please don't tell me
>you think you are being helpful.
>  
>

I see GNOME project making hundreds of discussions. I am pretty sure 
many people dont agree with all of them including myself. There is no 
real way to form  consensus for every such decision. If end users  start 
flaming the Fedora development list because upstream project decisions 
isnt why they personally prefer, it isnt really constructive. It doesnt 
really have to be a personal crusade.

Sure distributions have had patches and such middle man work is 
sometimes useful. A good example of this is probably packages such as 
cdrecord but in general we have to avoid doing that since its a 
*/maintenance/* 
<http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&hs=ZjR&client=firefox&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:unofficial&q=maintenance&spell=1>  
issue  So instead of distributions patches in extensively we have things 
like poppler ( Xpdf fork as a freedesktop.org project) being shared 
across vendors, developers and desktop environments.

In any community oriented distribution, the package 
developers/maintenancers make the decisions because they are the ones 
who are putting all the efforts into it.  Thats the general trend I see 
here. There is nothing religious or  Fedora specific about this. If you 
dont agree with me, as an experiment, pick any distribution that you 
think is more community focussed and insist on preference that the 
command line option be adopted back as patches. The only real way to get 
work done is to participate in the process.

For the GNOME terminal option  the following good ideas  have come up so 
far within the discussions.

* Setup a good default short cut for the terminal. Power users can 
launch this easily
* Have the GNOME power tools available here  
http://live.gnome.org/PowerUserTools including nautilus-open-terminal 
packaged for Fedora Extras
* Setup sabayon profiles for administrators  to deploy such changes in a 
large number of systems easily

Lets focus our efforts more on that.

regards
Rahul