Suggestion Next Release

[Brian Pepple]

On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 11:40 -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 5:38 AM, Igor Pires Soares
> <igorsoares at gmail.com> wrote:
>         
>         The Fedora Project Brazil is creating a Brazilian Portuguese
>         LiveCD to
>         fit our needs. It includes OpenOffice and Nautilus browser
>         mode by
>         default. Maybe you're interested in doing something like this
>         for
>         Colombia.
> 
> 
> Making a different set of package selections I can understand. But, I
> have some concerns about making deliberate changes to default settings
> like nautilus's default mode.  We shouldn't  be proliferating a bunch
> of user interface customizations.  Why need to be consistent about
> what the default settings look like in the Fedora branded spins. If a
> default setting is the wrong default.. then our duty is to work with
> upstream to change it. We shouldn't be propogating all possible
> choices for a default just because the option is there.
> 
> There's no compelling reason why any localized spin should be making a
> change in nautilus's default behavior which contradicts the setting in
> the official Desktop spin. You can do it, but I'm going to have a hard
> time supporting it.  If its better for your users in your area, why
> aren't you making the case to get the default changed in upstream?

+1

Later,
/B
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Brian Pepple <bpepple at fedoraproject.org>

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