GNOME as the default desktop (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Minutes - 2010-12-06)

[Bill Nottingham]

Christoph Wickert (christoph.wickert at googlemail.com) said: 
>       * Removal of the notification area which and the resulting API
>         changes in libnotify 0.7.0 breaks all other desktop bug
>         gnome-shell.

You could certainly package libnotify06 if you really want; it shouldn't
be that complicated.

>       * Change from Nodoka to Clearlooks. Many people objected, after
>         FPL spoke up the GNOME SIG promised to revisit the decision and
>         keep us informed. This did not happen.
>       * Black notifications that looked like a Ubuntu ripp-of. Again
>         many people objected, but again GNOME SIG did not care.

This is in the realm of 'upstream design decisions should be arbitrarily
decided, debated, and reverted via Fedora'. I'm not sure that's a 
generally good tack to take.

> And now there is
> http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2010/12/second-class-citizens.html

He's describing 'a request to ship different wallpaper' as 'a much
awaited dismissal of' and 'move to kill' the Design team. I find
it hard to take that at face value.

Bill