Re: GNOME 2.23 Schedule

["Felipe Contreras" <felipe contreras gmail com>]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 03:57:45PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>  > >  > 10. Easy mounting of Images like ISO and CUE
>  > >
>  > >  This seems to be in the process of being included, thanks to GVFS.
>  >
>  > Indeed, but it would have been nice to know this was important to
>  > users before. The fact that GVFS allows this is a strike of luck.
>
>  This appears to me as such a negative way to welcome this feature
>  ('glass half empty'). If it was really a 'strike of luck', then it means
>  that it was made without thinking about a user at all. IMO developers
>  often do know what is important. However, users are not the sole
>  priority (e.g. sometimes you see a rewrite of an application.. which
>  eventually might allow benefits.. but such the rewrite itself is not).
>
>  Note that above doens't mean I don't support having a better insight.

GVFS is a great thing, but it wasn't developed with this feature in mind.

Extensible code is good precisely for this kind of thing; even though
you didn't plan to support something specifically, you end up enabling
the pathway for that.

The way I see it GNOME development team is doing a great job with the
building blocks (libraries, frameworks, etc.) But the front-end
details need more love.

Best regards.

-- 
Felipe Contreras