On Sunday 26 March 2006 17:34, Dimi Paun wrote:
This is the crux of the issue: this problem does not have an obvious
correct solution. A normal approach would be "do no evil". That is,
there should be a hysteresis against changing well known behavior that
is tried, tested, and true. Experimental stuff like this should be
introduced gradually, with default to off, and only when it has been
proven in the field we may turn it on by default.
Now we are in violent agreement :)
<offtopic>
Don't people find it funny that we, as a community, know all about
incremental improvements when it comes to patch management, but we behave
like righteous a--holes when it comes to imposing what we believe to be
the Right Way (TM) onto others? And hey, since we can now invoke the
Usability Principle, we are in the right to remove any way for the
luser to opt-out of our One True Way.
Yup.
I'm trying (I hope) to avoid this; as a long time self righteous arsehole, I
reserve the right to self-deprecate at the drop of a hat. Otherwise I'm happy
to defer ..
But I digress, we are not the target audience...
</offtopic>
It's not off topic; we're trying to find a solution to a problem in Fedora
(and in GNOME, KDE and other desktops, in the process).
FWIW, you've made some damn good points, and I would like to thank you for
your time rather than criticise.
Thanks,
Bill.