Hi
Asking someone in a condescending tone to follow a 200-emails/day
list to have a say in about 1 decision a year that they care
about is just aggravating. For everybody. Please don't tell me
you think you are being helpful.
I see GNOME project making hundreds of discussions. I am pretty sure
many people dont agree with all of them including myself. There is no
real way to form consensus for every such decision. If end users start
flaming the Fedora development list because upstream project decisions
isnt why they personally prefer, it isnt really constructive. It doesnt
really have to be a personal crusade.
Sure distributions have had patches and such middle man work is
sometimes useful. A good example of this is probably packages such as
cdrecord but in general we have to avoid doing that since its a
*/maintenance/*
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http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&hs=ZjR&client=firefox&rl...
issue So instead of distributions patches in extensively we have things
like poppler ( Xpdf fork as a
freedesktop.org project) being shared
across vendors, developers and desktop environments.
In any community oriented distribution, the package
developers/maintenancers make the decisions because they are the ones
who are putting all the efforts into it. Thats the general trend I see
here. There is nothing religious or Fedora specific about this. If you
dont agree with me, as an experiment, pick any distribution that you
think is more community focussed and insist on preference that the
command line option be adopted back as patches. The only real way to get
work done is to participate in the process.
For the GNOME terminal option the following good ideas have come up so
far within the discussions.
* Setup a good default short cut for the terminal. Power users can
launch this easily
* Have the GNOME power tools available here
http://live.gnome.org/PowerUserTools including nautilus-open-terminal
packaged for Fedora Extras
* Setup sabayon profiles for administrators to deploy such changes in a
large number of systems easily
Lets focus our efforts more on that.
regards
Rahul