Last minute Nautilus change for Fedora 9

[Mark]

2008/3/9, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 01:13 +0100, Mark wrote:
>  > 2008/3/8, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com>:
>  > > Here's a little secret..setting a severity higher as the reporter
>  > >  doesn't mean a maintainer will agree that your issue is of significant
>  > >  severity to be bumped up in the priority list.  Don't get your
>  > >  feathers ruffled if noone responds any faster if you set the severity
>  > >  to high.  It's not a crasher or dataloss issue, so don't expect anyone
>  > >  to put this sort of issue ahead of things like that.  I personally
>  > >  would consider setting this to a high severity as an abuse of bugzilla
>  > >  reporting, and if you did it to a bug against one of my packages I'd
>  > >  pretty much instantly make a point of remembering that I need to
>  > >  re-calibrate any high severity reports from you as low severity... but
>  > >  that's just me.
>  >
>  > it was just a _question_ calm down.
>
>
> Everybody's calm here, Jeff is just trying to give you some insight into
>  the way the bug recipient thinks.  You could take the fact that he
>  answered you at great length as a sign of feeling it was worth his time
>  to carry on the conversation. ;-)  Many people here are passionate about
>  the details, don't sweat it.
>
>
>  > >  There is a desktop list..specifically for discussion of desktop issues
>  > >  that require discussion.
>  > >  I think you jumped the gun a little bit by calling for a vote before
>  > >  making the effort to discuss this on the desktop-list.
>  >
>  > Sorry, didn't realize. And i don't have ALL the fedora lists in my
>  > gmail to mail to.. gmails space is limited you know ;) but i believe i
>  > can send mails to those lists without subscribing right?
>
>
> I've got about 24 fedora-* mailing lists coming in, and no end to my
>  storage in sight, I'd say you should keep subscribing! :-D
>
>
>  > >  Calling for votes like this before an appropriate discussion in the
>  > >  appropriate location (desktop-list in this case, if the maintainer
>  > >  doesn't respond in a timely manner..give it a week).. reeks of an
>  > >  effort to abuse governance structures to force the introduction of pet
>  > >  features. And I have a big problem with that, and I make absolutely no
>  > >  excuses for coming down hard on people who do it... because it needs
>  > >  to be done to discourage a tidal wave of other people from doing it
>  > >  for their pet features and bogging down structures like fesco with
>  > >  wasting time on this sort of stuff.
>  >
>  > I already agreed on that all. no need to repeat yourself. You where
>  > clear the first time.
>
>
> We all have different ways of "speaking" tonally in emails.  I suggest a
>  sort of sedative filter for everyone, lest you be unduly ruffled by
>  someone else's tone.  We're all here because we care.
>
>  To stay a little on the topic, though, I have to say that I've never
>  been bothered by having larger thumbnails than icons, and find them very
>  useful.  Unviewables like folders ought to be small, since they are
>  easily identified contextually by their icons, and the name is the only
>  real differentiator.

I will just wait and see what happens with the RFE bug that i submitted.
Right now i'm gonna try and get fedora 9 to work to write a truncating
patch for nautilus.