Re: [Usability] Re: The state of keyboard navigation

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Michael Meeks <michael ximian com> writes:
> 
> 	Surely you mean 2.0.1 Owen ? Gnome 2.0 needs to have good keynav. I
> don't think we can wait another "mythical 6 months, man" to get good
> keynav for impaired users.
> 
> 	Or did I mistake something ?
> 

I don't know what Owen plans, but I'd point out that changing
keybindings is an incompatible change (breaks certain application
code), and thus really shouldn't even go in an ABI-compatible 2.2,
though I would advocate fudging things a bit to allow it in 2.2
anyway.

Even if we fudge that, fudging further to put incompatible changes in
micro point releases seems like a pretty questionable thing to do.
This is supposed to be a stable library.

The way to solve "mythical 6 months" is to freeze and stick to it, not
to delay every release on the grounds that the next release will be
too delayed. ;-) That's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Adding stable features takes time, and it is not made faster overall
by delaying a particular release snapshot.

Besides, if 2.2 is ABI-compat it should be hard to delay too badly.

But the key point for the moment is to get as much as we can in 2.0.0,
there are a number of patches in bugzilla, anyone who cares about
finishing the rest needs to get to work, not argue about the deadline.

Havoc