Re: Final heads up before removing places search

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Sat, 2012-09-15 at 02:34 +0200, Giovanni Campagna wrote:
> Hello release team, hello documenters and release notes writers.
> 
> I just wanted to make you aware of
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683506, which removes the
> builtin Places & Devices search provider from the shell. This provider
> is obsoleted by Nautilus / Files, which includes the same content and
> more.
> I thought it would be useful to inform you, even though it doesn't
> strictly affect UI freeze or feature freeze, because it probably
> deserves a mention in the release notes.
> As hard code freeze is impending, if it's ok I'm planning to push this
> roughly tomorrow afternoon (UTC).

I really think this kind of change is covered by the freeze.
It's a noticeable change in what the user sees. That said,
I don't object to the change.

Docs team: This isn't mentioned on files-search (although that
entire page probably needs a redo with the new Files search).
It is briefly mentioned on files-browse. We can probably just
drop one sentence.

--
Shaun