FC5: first impressions

[Bill Crawford]

On Sunday 26 March 2006 17:34, Dimi Paun wrote:

> This is the crux of the issue: this problem does not have an obvious
> correct solution. A normal approach would be "do no evil". That is,
> there should be a hysteresis against changing well known behavior that
> is tried, tested, and true. Experimental stuff like this should be
> introduced gradually, with default to off, and only when it has been
> proven in the field we may turn it on by default.

 Now we are in violent agreement :)

> <offtopic>
> Don't people find it funny that we, as a community, know all about
> incremental improvements when it comes to patch management, but we behave
> like righteous a--holes when it comes to imposing what we believe to be
> the Right Way (TM) onto others? And hey, since we can now invoke the
> Usability Principle, we are in the right to remove any way for the
> luser to opt-out of our One True Way.

 Yup.

 I'm trying (I hope) to avoid this; as a long time self righteous arsehole, I 
reserve the right to self-deprecate at the drop of a hat. Otherwise I'm happy 
to defer ..

> But I digress, we are not the target audience...
> </offtopic>

 It's not off topic; we're trying to find a solution to a problem in Fedora 
(and in GNOME, KDE and other desktops, in the process).

 FWIW, you've made some damn good points, and I would like to thank you for 
your time rather than criticise.

 Thanks,
Bill.