Fedora-desktop-list Digest, Vol 7, Issue 8

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:55:09 -0400
> From: Havoc Pennington <hp at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: Changing Gnone desktop font color.
> To: Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop
> 	<fedora-desktop-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <1095702909.28058.23.camel at localhost.localdomain>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> 
> On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 00:21 +0100, Fernando Morais wrote:
> > Your program seems very good.
> > I'm going to try it for sure...
> > 
> > Regarding the so called wishlist queues, i think that is causing some slow 
> > evolution of fedora. The blocking of some basic and really needed features, 
> > like the gnome menu editing, is putting fedora some steps behind. If testing 
> > versions are always being released why not activate those features, those 
> > that are really needed. Everyone knows that they aren't expected to work at 
> > 100%.
> > 
> 
> Our general policy (for final releases, not test releases) is that if
> something is totally busted it's better to just turn it off. It looks
> worse to have broken functionality than to have missing functionality.
> 
> Havoc

I know - that s why i wonder what up2date is still doing in core...

An option could ofcource be (if it dont have to be compiled out/in) to
make it possible to turn it on (through preferences - or maybe even just
gconf)  - and attach a big, fat, and generally ugly warning to the
checkbox.