[Deskbar] Re: Deskbar Applet / Feature Freeze

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

It makes me a bit nervous, of course, but given that this is the first
time for the applet (so regressions will be less obvious) and the
generally really prompt response of the maintainers, I'm OK with a
slip here.

Luis

On 1/16/06, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think nobody answered so far, so here's my take on it.
>
> Le samedi 14 janvier 2006 à 15:59 +0100, Raphael Slinckx a écrit :
> > Hi !
> >
> > I'm one of the deskbar-applet maintainer. The module isn't strictly part
> > of gnome yet, but since we have proposed it, and it seems to be accepted
> > by the majority we are taking the 2.14 release cycle seriously.
> >
> > There has been for quite a long time a background work to make a better
> > UI for the applet, the work is nearly done but the two people working on
> > it (me and Mikkel) are now in exams until the 22 January, and so we are
> > not able to finish it before the 18th feature freeze.
> >
> > Here is a screenshot of the future UI (not polished yet)
> > http://raphael.slinckx.net/deskbar-p.png
> >
> > The old UI can be seen on these screenshots:
> > http://raphael.slinckx.net/deskbar/screenshots.php
> >
> > We are fairly convinced that it will be ready before the UI freeze of 30
> > January, but it may also be seen as a new "feature" even though the code
> > being patched is just the UI.
> >
> > This new UI would be really important for gnome 2.14 since it's much
> > clearer and will allow us to circumvent some limitations of the
> > entry-in-panel and GtkEntryCompletion about which our users are
> > complaining in bugzilla (for example vertical panel support).
> >
> > We also want to support both the new and old ui since we agree that
> > people might prefer the old one.
> >
> > So the question is the following: is such a change considered an UI or
> > feature change, and if it's the latter, can we still commit the change
> > after the feature break when time permits (before the UI freeze of 30
> > January) ?
>
> This is a tough one. It looks like a big UI change to me, but some might
> considered this as a new feature, indeed.
>
> I'm okay with it going in before the UI freeze (especially since there
> are only 5 open bugs for deskbar-applet).
>
> Any opinions from other release team members?
>
> Vincent
>
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