remove interface tab (please don't)

[leftyfb <leftyfb left-click org>]

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This "bug" was brought to my attention when I recently tried out Ubuntu
10.04 alpha 2 to see what new improvements Ubuntu and Gnome in general
had. Upon going through my usual routine of setting preferences to my
liking, I could not find the option to put back the menu icons in the 3
main menu's provided by Gnome in the top panel. Only some of the icons
are shown, others are not. There used to be a setting to bring them all
back. This was previously just an annoyance to have to complete the look
of the menu's.

I went to #ubuntu+1 on Freenode and asked if this lack of preference was
just a temporary setback in the alpha developemnt of Ubuntu. I was
pointed to this "bug":
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592756

Reading the first comment:

"Discussed many times.  We should remove the interface tab.  Basically
everthing there is a user experience design cop-out.  It only belongs in
a tweak UI tool
- - but only if someone cares enough to write one."

"Discussed many times"
Discussed where? Were Gnome users asked for feedback on this decision?

"It only belongs in a tweak UI tool - but only if someone cares enough
to write one."
User experience preferences for gnome should now be the responsibility
of third party developers who might or might not develop tools to put
back user experience preferences which gnome developers created and then
removed in the first place?


The rest of the comments in "bug" are people disagreeing with the
original developer in his decision to remove the preference competely.
Save for 1 developer who agree'd and implemented the descision stating
"majority of users". What majority of users? So far I'm seeing most
people disagreeing with the descision. Not to mention, I don't see the
majority of users requesting preferences be removed regardless if they
are of interest to them or not. Why this descision? Is this preference
really that much of a bane on the system resources? Why are we removing
half the icons from the menu's making them looked half finished and
unpolished? Why not remove all icons and be done with it?


I voiced my opinion in the comments of this bug just like the "majority
of users" were doing. My comment and one other was removed and my
account on bugzilla disabled.

So, where does a user go to voice his opinions on this type of developer
decision where said developers will read it and hopefully impact the
descision? Where can a user submit feedback on bringing back a
preference that was removed?

Can we please get this preference put back? I don't care where it is,
but we shouldn't have to wait for a third party tool to reimplement
preferences to finish the look of the menu's that have already existed
but were removed.
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