Re: Appearance properties

[Peteris Krisjanis <pecisk gmail com>]

2009/11/10 Patryk Zawadzki <patrys pld-linux org>:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Peteris Krisjanis <pecisk gmail com> wrote:
>> 2009/11/10 Patryk Zawadzki <patrys pld-linux org>:
>>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Xavier Claessens <xclaesse gmail com> wrote:
>>>> What I find totally insane is to not leave the UI to change that. New
>>>> settings is clearly not accepted by a large (majority?) part of users.
>>>> Except ~5 devs, I see nobody happy with it.
>>> Um, it doesn't work that way. I'm happy with it but I'm not compelled
>>> to post about it. My girlfriend is either happy about it or she
>>> doesn't give a damn, she didn't post about it either. It always seems
>>> as if the majority was unhappy as the unhappy ones are generally the
>>> only people who write.
>> So because there are maybe majority of happy (and ignorant) users, we
>> will ignore rather loud opposition to this change? Really nice way to
>> deal with community.
>
> And you are attacking me because..? The only thing I did is point out
> a logic flow in the above statement ("loudest == majority").
>

Patryk, I am not attacking you. I am just explaining that people who
protest this change are also part of community.

And there are some reasoning - like it or not, loudest minority are
something you would like to deal with. Because they generate word of
mouth.

Cheers,
Peter.