It should be mentioned that the discussion would be much more productive if there was actually an official stance, a wiki documentation, a blog post, or *anything* explaining the reasons for the change.
This was made for NotifyOSD, for the MessagingMenu and for most of the non-trivial changes Ubuntu introduced.
The closest the users got to an explanation was the latest blog entry in Ivanka Majic's blog (http://www.ivankamajic.com/?p=281), but that post raised only the questions and none of the answers. Even worse, it showed that the design is not an unanimity *not even among the design team itself*.
I'm not saying that the explanation should satisfy everyone. All I'm saying is that it should exist.
It should be mentioned that the discussion would be much more productive if there was actually an official stance, a wiki documentation, a blog post, or *anything* explaining the reasons for the change.
This was made for NotifyOSD, for the MessagingMenu and for most of the non-trivial changes Ubuntu introduced.
The closest the users got to an explanation was the latest blog entry in Ivanka Majic's blog (http:// www.ivankamajic .com/?p= 281), but that post raised only the questions and none of the answers. Even worse, it showed that the design is not an unanimity *not even among the design team itself*.
I'm not saying that the explanation should satisfy everyone. All I'm saying is that it should exist.