FC5: first impressions

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 17:45 -0500, Dimi Paun wrote:
> From: "Rahul Sundaram" <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>
> > > 1. Metacity's new window in the background
> > 
> > We have a bug report open it. Upstream has tentatively agreed to make it
> > a option disabled by default
> 
> What means "disabled by default"? I hope we get the old behaviour
> by default :)

Right. Thats what I meant. The RH bugzilla on this issue is
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186308


> 
> <offtopic flamewar="false" excuse="friday">
> Anyway, I think these are the kind of changes that irk people a 
> lot as far as GNOME approach to usability goes: experimental 
> behavior that is highly subjective, which is being forced onto 
> the masses with no way of opting out.

There was a fairly detailed analysis here
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326159 which even called the
behavior experimental. Might have been good to have a option till they
get it right atleast.


> 
> I know, I know, this is not the list for this sort of complaints,
> but these are things that people perceive as being "the disto",
> and I think that Fedora should use its clout to fight these kind
> of changes upstream. Especially when they originate from Red Hat :)
> (BTW, I dread posting to the GNOME lists about this, I can almost
> hear the your-are-not-our-target-customer-eveybody-is-happy-with-it
> kind of response...)
> </offtopic>

Can't say I love this option but it works for me. There are people who
do actually prefer the new option like LWN's editor Jonathan Corbet (
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-
February/msg00086.html) for example. Not a surprise since the original
motivation for this new behavior seems to a article on that website. I
can't find it now. 


Rahul