Comment 153 for bug 332945

Il giorno mer, 08/04/2009 alle 14.27 +0000, Alan Pope ha scritto:
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> > OK seems that this battle is not going to be won by the users!
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> This isn't a battle. It's a bug report.

Did somebody notice how tons of people here are *fighting* for what they
feel like an usability decrease in ubuntu? How many persons do you think
would get involved in such a discussion with microsoft, or OSX?

These people are not here because they've nothing to do and have fun
quarrelling. You have a lot of non-developers taking usability of the
system you develop *very seriously*.

Five years ago, the dialogue with a linux user was like "OTHER: hey:
your system does not do the obvious thing by default... L.U.: oh yes, I
reinstalled and I forgot to reconfigure the setting, sorry, <click click
click>".

I am depicting myself here.

Now the same persons strive for an unique choice of extremely high
quality default on what they perceive to be *their* operating system.

That's just to explain why "battle". For me is not a battle. For me this
is a design mistake which developers are refusing to ack. And seeing
again that the proposed strategy of not opening unwanted pop-ups just is
not feasible makes me very sad, because current gnome desktop actually
implements the strategy.

I strongly dislike when people advocate a choice with a false
statement.