Re: Request for breakage in gnome-panel

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 07:23:31 -0600, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 08:08 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > Bah, this was predictable. Because it's a trivial UI fix instead of any
> > other kind of trivial fix, it becomes a huge thread and gets shot down
> > for bad reasons ranging from the nitpicky to the melodramatic. Bryan,
> > just put the patch in our SRPM. </grumpy>
> 
> It was predictable that a very user-visible UI change was rejected three
> weeks (three weeks!) after the UI freeze?  I should hope so.
> 
> It was predictable that I don't want to scrap my notes and outlines for
> the User Guide work, especially after having to rework the whole damn
> thing because it's been out of date since 2.6?  Yeah, sorry, I'm just
> not into that sort of thing.
> 
> Was that too melodramatic?

I think the problem was that this wasn't the reason that was being
used to turn it down, when this was the only real valid reason, IMO. 
Unfortunately, I was kind of the one that started it because I was
hoping it could easily be put elsewhere in the menu, but I'm afraid my
comment came across more as "Here's what we should be doing
usability-wise" which was not a well-advised comment considering that
I'm neither the maintainer nor a member of the usability team.  So, I
think I screwed up.  I'm still against it, but only because you claim
that removing the menu item would cause you problems; otherwise I
think it should be approved...

*shrug*

Elijah