On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Rex Dieter
<rdieter(a)math.unl.edu> wrote:
> On 04/11/2014 09:01 AM, Eric H. Christensen wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 09:42:02AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
>>>
>>> ... Therefore, I'd like to appeal
>>>
>>> to our Friends foundation. I hope we can find a middle ground instead of
>>> staking out extreme positions.
>>
>>
>> Coming to the middle, I'd like to suggest what I suggested in
yesterday's
>> meeting (which was completely ignored).
>>
>> Gnome could use a menu in the 'All Settings' menu that would allow users
>> to add their own links as well as add some predefined links (such as Google
>> apps and Facebook). These would be disabled by default but the user could
>> easily activate them and include them on their system.
>
>
> It wasn't ignored. In fact, that was close to what I had suggested too, and
> I was (and am) in favor of it. However, it seemed us 2 were the only ones
> in favor it, and at least 2 explicitly mentioning being against that (iirc)
I agree it wasn't ignored. Reading back in the logs, however, doesn't
show anyone explicitly against it. There was some discussion on
opt-in vs. opt-out, but the specific suggestion wasn't voted on.
Considering the thing we did vote on is more abstract and broadly
applicable, and this is an implementation detail of the UI, I don't
think it required a Board vote. It's a fine suggestion to pass along
though.
While not exactly what the suggestion was from Sparks, Kalev pointed
me to upstream GNOME bug
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725002. The gnome-software
application now distinguishes webapps from native apps. I find it
encouraging that the upstream designers are already looking at this
before FESCo even contacted them.
josh
p.s. I also updated FESCo ticket 1273 to point them to the technical UI details.