Re: About Panels - aka lynching time

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:36:22AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Sriram Ramkrishna">
> 
> > It might be interesting to have desktop themes that configures things like
> > a desktop with no start button and various things.
> 
> Surely it would be better to 'do it right' and figure out the GNOME way of
> doing it, rather than throwing away our responsibility and dumping policy
> and behavioural choices on the user.
> 

I'm not advocating that we throw our responsibility on the user.
We should have a sane standard environment that works and is usable.
But if people want to change the look let them.  One can probably
write something to do it after all it's merely saved session.  

Allowing people to experiment with whats usable might prove interesting.
Isn't that what Apple does when coming up with a user interface?  
It doesn't have to be an official GNOME utility .

sri