Re: Join gtk-devel-list

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Havoc,

On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 16:45, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Just a heads-up. Discussions or design documents have been posted to
> gtk-devel-list recently about combo box/option menu work, file
> selector work, and menu/toolbar/dock/menumerge etc. work.

	It would be _really_ good if we could try and keep people focused on
fixing Gnome 2.0, porting applications and getting it out of the door -
in my opinion. Encouraging people to work on software that is scheduled
for 6 months away, while the existing code base has serious bugs,
mis-features, incoherencies, lack of accessibility etc. etc. seems a
serious mistake.

	Yes - it's good to talk about things before doing them - but why start
doing that now ? it would seem ( to me ) to encourage people to hack on
speculative features for 6 months time, when the desktop they're running
is in a dire state.

	How about delaying such discussion for a month. It would be wonderful
to have the people who might otherwise be engaged improving Gtk+ 2.2
seeing and fixing the horrible things people have done with their APIs
in the layers above, and doing productisation on Gnome 2.0 as a whole so
we get a slick release. It'd also be great to have some Gtk+ people
helping to add accessibility support to Gnome apps, to get a feel for
that too.

	Regards,

		Michael.

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