External websites and Fedora's Foundations

[Josh Boyer]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
>> On 04/11/2014 09:01 AM, Eric H. Christensen wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 09:42:02AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
>>>>
>>>> ... Therefore, I'd like to appeal
>>>>
>>>> to our Friends foundation. I hope we can find a middle ground instead of
>>>> staking out extreme positions.
>>>
>>>
>>> Coming to the middle, I'd like to suggest what I suggested in yesterday's
>>> meeting (which was completely ignored).
>>>
>>> Gnome could use a menu in the 'All Settings' menu that would allow users
>>> to add their own links as well as add some predefined links (such as Google
>>> apps and Facebook).  These would be disabled by default but the user could
>>> easily activate them and include them on their system.
>>
>>
>> It wasn't ignored. In fact, that was close to what I had suggested too, and
>> I was (and am) in favor of it.  However, it seemed us 2 were the only ones
>> in favor it, and at least 2 explicitly mentioning being against that (iirc)
>
> I agree it wasn't ignored.  Reading back in the logs, however, doesn't
> show anyone explicitly against it.  There was some discussion on
> opt-in vs. opt-out, but the specific suggestion wasn't voted on.
> Considering the thing we did vote on is more abstract and broadly
> applicable, and this is an implementation detail of the UI, I don't
> think it required a Board vote.  It's a fine suggestion to pass along
> though.

While not exactly what the suggestion was from Sparks, Kalev pointed
me to upstream GNOME bug
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725002.  The gnome-software
application now distinguishes webapps from native apps.  I find it
encouraging that the upstream designers are already looking at this
before FESCo even contacted them.

josh

p.s. I also updated FESCo ticket 1273 to point them to the technical UI details.