Re: New GNOME User Interface Guidelines document and maintainer

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico nuclecu unam mx>]

>  May I ask who the new maintainer is?

I am.

>  May I also state that I think this is somewhat harsh--usually, before a
>  firing occurs, some warning is given that it is immenent.  A complaint that
>  things are getting too messy is different than saying that someone's about
>  to lose his or her job--and, even in the free software world, "bosses" are
>  required.

I sent two mails to gnome-gui-list and Miguel sent another mail asking
for sanity and content.

>  May I also ask if I am, to be blunt, out of a job?  Bowie appointed
>  me a co-maintainer.  As such, I've done a reasonably substantial
>  amount of work on next generation components, being written up at
>  http://www.best.com/~effugas.  (As you read this, the essays are
>  being written.)

Since you have not been contracted by the GNOME project, you are of
course not out of a job.  Your contributions to the User Interface
Guidelines will be happily accepted, as will anyone's.

As I write this, the only thing accessible from your web page is the
Minbar description.  The images do not seem to be available, although
they were a few days ago.  I think the Minbar is interesting.  It
would be very good if you could write a proof-of-concept for the GNOME
Panel -- it does not matter if the initial version doesn't implement
all the functionality you are thinking of.

  Federico