Really quiet

[Christopher Chan]

On Friday, March 26, 2010 01:53 PM, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:42:59 +0000
> Liam Proven<lproven at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> As for rearranging the title-bar buttons - well, I think it's foolish,
>> but really, I can't get all that worked-up about it. It's just some
>> buttons. Fitt's law does /not/ apply - that only works on whole
>> screens, not on individual windows. However, keeping the buttons
>> /away/ from the menus seems sensible to me, as does enforcing a split
>> between the harmless minimize/maximise buttons and the destructive
>> close button.
>
> Do you know what strikes me as funny about the whole title bar button
> controversy?

Man, I seem to be missing all the shows.


>
> This:
>
> (From the Ubuntu CoC<http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct>):
>
> "Be collaborative.
> [...]
> Our work should be done transparently and we should involve
> as many interested parties as early as possible. If we decide to take a
> different approach than others, we will let them know early, document
> our work and inform others regularly of our progress."
>
> "Transparently," involves springing things on the user group (I hesitate
> to use the term, "community," since it seems to be reserved for Ubu
> higher-ups) at the last moment before feature freeze?

You know there is "community" and then there is "the community"


> Maybe so if we use the jargon file definition:
>   1.<jargon>  Not visible, hidden; said of a system which
>       functions in a manner not evident to the user.
>
> But I still have trouble getting that, "If we decide to take a
> different approach than others, we will let them know early," part to
> compute.
> Does it mean early in the morning?
>
> Hmm, is there some hypocrisy showing?
> Could be!

There was all that yodeling about democracy and meritocracy or something 
lately was there not?


>
> The whole CoC bit seems to be telling me, "we mean this to refer to
> ourselves unless we mean it to refer you when you piss us off or when
> we /don't/ mean it about ourselves because we want to do it
> differently than we have said that we would."
>
> I'm sure I'll take a lot of flak for pointing this out, too.

That should liven things up a bit here. /me goes get tacos and guacamole.