Adam Williamson said the following on 10/20/2009 08:07 AM Pacific Time:
Hi, guys. This is a reply to the 'Some recent changes'
thread, but I
wasn't subscribed at that time so can't reply to it directly.
Echoing the concerns raised by Jóhann Guðmundsson, I wanted to pass on
some discussion of these changes from the forums:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=232166
there's concern that this kind of highly-visible behaviour change
shouldn't be introduced this late in the cycle. When I talked to
Matthias on IRC he seemed to think the changes to remove the 'show
desktop' button and reduce the default number of workspaces from 4 to 2
should affect only new users, but the forum discussion seems to indicate
they actually affect existing users too. Is this considered a bug?
I would still like to understand better how these decisions are being
made. Is there a desktop meeting or SIG that decides these things? Do
we just take whatever the defaults are from Gnome upstream?
John