Comment 125 for bug 733349

SRoesgen: I would personally like to see this too, but I do think we have to see the other side of the argument too. This is a feature request, not a bug (at least for my definition of a bug, others may disagree), and the "this affects me too" is not really a way of voting for new features but a way of judging the impact of a bug. So all it says is that at least ninety users of Ubuntu would like this changed. Ubuntu has a lot of users, and while it is well possible that a lot of them would also like this change we can't just conclude that without more evidence. The fact that we would like it may well make us more inclined to think so.

And you also have to realise that accepting a patch is more responsibility than just changing some code and forgetting about it. Patches, even small ones (and this one adds to user-visible configuration interfaces, so it can't be treated as trivial) increase code size and maintenance work. In the end, the person writing the code (or their employer) is the one who gets to decide what it will look like, which is (in my opinion) fair as they have to shoulder the burden.