Re: GNOME Shell Modal Dialog Tweakage

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 11:33 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:
> > Hi Allan,
> >
> > On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 18:50 +0000, Allan Day wrote:
> >> I've just pushed a minor change to the GNOME Shell theme [1]. This is
> >> a small visual change [2, 3], and it doesn't
> >> affect anything functionally. It does change the look of the dialogs
> >> very slightly though. It was suggested that I you a heads up since
> >> we're in UI freeze.
> >
> > What blocked you to contact the Documentation team and the release team
> > first to ask for a UI freeze exception, instead of just committing?
> 
> If Allan hadn't sent this headsup, would you have noticed the change ?
> In other words, is there really such great value in ensuring that
> documentation screenshots are pixel-perfect ? I can see the point if
> things get actually rearranged, or strings changed, or new
> functionality added, but here we are talking about shifting some
> whitespace around - everybody who looks at the before and after
> screenshots will recognize them as the same dialog...

I don't think anybody would have blocked this change. (I certainly
wouldn't have.) But I don't like the idea of qualifying our freeze
with "unless you don't think you need to". We entrust the release
team to make those decisions.

--
Shaun