F12: where did window properties go?

Tom Lane tgl at redhat.com
Thu Nov 19 16:44:24 UTC 2009


Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> writes:
> On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 10:01 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Upstream change or not, you're pissing off users to save 59k out of
>> however many gigabytes a minimal GNOME install is.  I shouldn't really
>> presume to speak for others, but for me focus-follows-mouse is wired
>> into the fingertips --- it's not a negotiable UI change, it WILL cause
>> me to leave a distro.  Or stop using GNOME, if they are stupid enough
>> to try to kill it altogether. 

> You're making the assumption that the change was made to save space.  It
> wasn't.  I can't find the original thread right now, but it's part of a
> cleanup on configuration tools.  Upstream felt it no longer necessary to
> expose this, our Fedora maintainer decided to make it available via a
> subpackage.

The question is why that package isn't part of the default install.

			regards, tom lane




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