[Sugar-devel] rethinking your icon customization patch

[Daniel Narvaez]

Yes it was accepted. You can see the list of accepted features here

https://github.com/sugarlabs/roadmap/issues?milestone=1&state=open


On 20 June 2013 13:40, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:

> On 06/20/2013 01:28 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
>
>> I agree that the technical solution we have come up with to a large
>> extent obviates the need for consensus around whether or not to
>> implement this feature as it pushes it to the user space in the from
>> of an activity. (Gonzalo and I have been discussing the fact that
>> other cpsection widgets could also be moved to activities, but that is
>> for another day.
>>
>> Regarding the specifics of this feature, I have not found any of the
>> arguments that this feature is somehow going to confuse our users even
>> remotely convincing. Three observations: (1) any change to the icon is
>> driven by explicit user action, so no surprises there; (2) in
>> virtually every other system or service our users encounter, there is
>> the ability to set a personal avatar, so to argue that this is somehow
>> going to confuse them in Sugar seems a stretch; and (3) particularly
>> in light of the new approach, making it easier for our end users to
>> make modifications to the system is in keeping with our overall
>> pedagogy -- moving away from requiring root access to make changes is
>> a good thing and while we don't want our users to inadvertently break
>> things irreparably, there is something to be said for learning from
>> the experience of breaking things. Bottom line, I seem to have more
>> faith in the abilities of our users than perhaps is warranted, but I
>> think that is aligned with our goals to encourage our users to take
>> change. (The fact that this feature comes from one of our users says a
>> lot.)
>>
>> Regarding our broken decision-making process, the problem I have is
>> less that we don't reach consensus than that the discussions are
>> happening very late in the process. We had, for example, had an email
>> from our release manager months ago about the features proposed for
>> this release. That was the time to question whether or not this
>> feature should be accepted. To wait until now is not fair to the
>> person, in the case, Ignacio, who has been working hard on his
>> implementation. It is fine to give technical criticism at this point,
>> and I think that discussion has been fruitful, but in my opinion, we
>> really need to be more forthcoming earlier in the process about the
>> features themselves.
>>
>
> Has that feature been accepted for 0.100? I must admit that I do not read
> all the mails and I might have overseen this one, at least I first saw [1]
> when the patch was submitted. Has there been a mail to ask for feedback for
> the design?
>
> The process tries to make room for that early feedback, especially for
> Features that changes UI or work flow.
>
> Simon
>
> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/**Features/Icon_Change<http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Icon_Change>
> [2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/**Features/Policy#Propose_a_**
> feature_for_addition_into_the_**release_cycle<http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Policy#Propose_a_feature_for_addition_into_the_release_cycle>
>
>
>


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Daniel Narvaez
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