F12: where did window properties go?

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Thu Nov 19 17:12:05 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 11:44 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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
> 

Oversight, and/or design decision.

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Jesse Keating
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