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Re: [Ayatana] Reducing Resistance to Change

On 4/27/10, Martin Owens <doctormo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A few of my community circles react to Design Team news with a *sigh*
> and "Oh god what have they done now". The teams reputation is low and
> it's over shadowing the really great work that's going on. How can I

Howdy,
  The team has done a lot of good work, yet I do find myself saying
this.  Not always, but some of the changes have been significant ones
that have caused a fair amount of work to deal with.  I don't resist
changes, just because they are changes.  I resist them, if they make
the experience with Ubuntu worse that it was.  Most of the Ayatana
changes don't do this, and I have not really figured out where to
bring up the more significant issues.  I spoke with some Canonical
developers at the Lucid UDS and they understood my problem.  I have
had difficulty contacting them since then.  The users I setup systems
for are typically very inexperienced and I don't believe they are
typical of Ubuntu users as a whole.  Is it appropriate to bring up
issues on this list or is Launchpad the only place?  It is not really
a bug, but it is a scary behavior.
 I won't be at the Maverick UDS for financial reasons, but I do hope
you have a successful conference.
Good day,
Ralph