Re: GNOME 2.23 Schedule

[Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org>]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 08:16:21PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> >  And yes, there are Ubuntu brainstorm too, and two most popular
> >  requests last time I checked was make suspend work magically without
> >  glitch everywhere and make GNOME capable to manage any network
> >  connection type.
[..]
> That's a great example, actually there are other interesting wanted features:
> 
> 6. Speed Up Ubuntu-Gnome boot time <- don't we all want that?

Which right makes the suggestion totally useless. It could be that the
current boot time is too slow. But could also be caused by the survey.
At least initially the most requested 'features' were shown at the top.
Everyone wants things to go faster, so a high percentage wanting this
doesn't say anything.

> 7. Improve dual-screen function <- xrandr is cool but not user-friendly enough

Developers would need concrete bugs ('improve' is vague). At least you
could have all GNOME developers be sponsored big enough pcs + two
monitors.

So the suggestion needs to be checked (are there problems), then changed
into concrete action points. But ehr.. that should be the intention of
that Ubuntu brainstorm.. I assume this will be done by Ubuntu at one
point.

> 8. Unmount resolution <- lsof and kill help, but so would a GUI

Or just avoid the whole issue all together. What I mean is: you need a
translation between some suggestion, the real cause and concrete steps.

> 10. Easy mounting of Images like ISO and CUE

That is so generic that it could be GNOME, distro feature, something
else.

> I find #10 particularily interesting; are developers really aware that

'developers': meaning who? GNOME developers?

> so many users want that? is bugzilla enough to see such kind of
> things? is it really true that there are no resources to implement
> that?

You assume there is a bag of developers that can be assigned to work on
something. I'd love more developers as well.. but event then.. they
should already be working on something... people doing nothing is
inefficient.

> There's a bug report for that dating 2003:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103817
> 
> Forget about patches, there's a nautilus extension packaged and everything!

Meaning: developers did their job, up to the distro to ensure it is
installed by default?

> I guess those thousands of users can wait, GNOME developers know better.

Please stop with making such statements. It is not productive and
misrepresent what is being done. If you're going to whine that you do
not have a personal developer, do that somewhere else.

-- 
Regards,
Olav