Re: Feature proposal: combined system status menu

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

Hey Giovanni!

Giovanni Campagna <scampa giovanni gmail com> wrote:
> As one of the implementors of the current status icons, and current
> developer of gnome-shell, I can tell it's a small can of worms, but that's
> not what this is about.
> Rather, what I'd like to point out is that, in my opinion, this needs more
> thinking through before going straight to shipping.
> I mean, I trust the design team and I value your experience in the field,
> but this is another radical change, and it's quite different from our
> competitors.
> Unfortunately, we don't have the benefit of two years of betas, so if we
> implement and deliver this 3.10, there is a risk of an impendance mismatch
> between what's expected from the designs and theory behind them, and how the
> user effectively react. Which would bring even more negative publicity to
> GNOME.
> This is generally a problem of every fast releasing project with little man
> power, so it affected many of the features in 3.8 and before, but at least
> at time we had the validation of other systems doing the same.
> To me, a reasonable compromise (yet to decide if technically possible) would
> be to have a "feature branch", that is not merged in master until after it's
> thoroughly user tested. And that possibly gets punted to 3.12 or never, if
> it turns out to be a bad idea.

Yeah, I'm aware that we need to tread carefully. I've actually spent
quite a while sitting on these mockups, revisiting them and
challenging them with different scenarios - you will also notice that
they are pretty detailed.

So yes, I'm in agreement with you about pushing this prematurely.
Working in a branch seems like it could be a good solution.

Allan