Re: Pitch approval -- GNOME 3.28 features

[Paul Frields]

I made an editorial pass on the Files article and it seems ready for
tomorrow:
https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=20949&preview=1&_ppp=4d97a48977

The tweaks were mainly for readability (shorter sentences, breaking up
paragraphs slightly, less passive voice where possible), and adding some
subheadings. I also added a screenshot of the Starred feature.

Paul

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 1:03 AM, Link Dupont  wrote:
> Update to this article plan.
>
> The talking points[1] are a much more concise list and description of
> features more suitable for a "What's New" article. I will leave that as
> a separate article to be drafted or written by whomever.
>
> The content of *this* article has possibly changed too. My main
> motivation for writing a "GNOME 3.28 features" article was to create a
> medium to communicate some contentious changes to Nautilus in 3.28.
> Upon feedback from some of the folks on the GNOME engagement team, I
> have rewritten the section on desktop icons as a much longer piece. I
> feel like it might be worthy of an article on its own. My draft is
> here[2].
>
> I can either propose it as a standalone article, or include it in a
> summary of GNOME 3.28 features. Is this worthy of an article by itself?
>
> 1: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_talking_points#Fedora_Works
> tation
>
> 2: https://wiki.gnome.org/LinkDupont/FilesDesktopIcons
>
> On Sat, 2018-04-21 at 10:11 -0700, Link Dupont wrote:
> > Editors,
> >
> > I wrote a section about the desktop icon removal. The rest of the
> > article is still being written, but this section is particularly hot.
> > I'd like to get as much input and attention as possible on it. Could
> > someone take a look?
> >
> > Link
> >
> > On Fri, 2018-04-20 at 15:55 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 07:51:54AM -0700, Link Dupont wrote:
> > > > Sure. I was planning on "porting" the upstream GNOME release
> > > > notes
> > > > to
> > > > Fedora's implementation. I suppose it's time I upgrade to F28.
> > > > ^_^
> > > >
> > > > I also wanted to cover the removal of desktop icons from
> > > > Nautilus.
> > > > I know
> > > > it's controversial, but I believe that if we can get that news
> > > > out
> > > > and into
> > > > the hands of users ahead of the release, the potential fallout
> > > > and
> > > > pitchforking will be less severe.
> > >
> > > I don't disagree at all.  I think we'll likely get some trolling in
> > > the incoming comments, but typically we just trash those.
> > >
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