Re: Re: A Call For Open Governance Of X Development (Egbert Eich)

On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 05:13:43PM -0500, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
>    We've already seen an example of someone who thinks the current
> management is incompetent because his laptop doesn't work 
> correctly.  Who wants that guy voting?

Also, other people do it like that too, one of the project that is cited
as doing it right, the Gnome project, went into full tirany mode to
enforce the HIG and the change of gnome toward a more simple,
option-less, corporate-friendly gnome. Not to forget the outcry the
galeon 2 project was taking because of strict HIG following, and which
lead to the galeon/epiphany fork.

Do you really think that users would have voted for the HIG ? The new
gnome target group doesn't even know of it, and most of the old user
base was seriously pissed about it. I was too, but i find gnome 2.2
nice, altough i really didn't care about the pre-fork galeon 2
direction (which removed functionality for the sake of removing
functionality).

Friendly,

Sven Luther