In terms of usability, I've only really had reviews from one of my coworkers who used a very similar patch I pushed to be adopted in Hardy, and no apparent annoyance there. In terms of other users, I didn't hear of good or bad reviews about the third checkbox :)
I'd probably leave it to Soren Hansen or Alexander Sack to make the call about this, since they are much more familiar with the package and code than I am, I think.
In terms of my personal opinion about this, i think we should probably bring up the patch even if it's not in upstream, if only because the functionality was there in Hardy... I think it's a general rule of thumb (or should be), that you don't want to take a feature out if it's being used. Then again, I am not a MOTU, only starting to get familiar with the guidelines, rules and all. Maybe it be a good idea to bring it up on the ubuntu-devel mailing list?
The fact that there is a bug open about this means that it is; but I'd be interested to know *how much*. I didn't notice much interest in trying to fix the bug in another way that the patch I'm proposing, and I'm since my UI skills are somewhat limited, it might take me a little while to get Dan's proposed way of fixing the bug to a working state -- so far, all I have is the modified UI in glade done. I'll be spending more time on it this weekend.
In terms of usability, I've only really had reviews from one of my coworkers who used a very similar patch I pushed to be adopted in Hardy, and no apparent annoyance there. In terms of other users, I didn't hear of good or bad reviews about the third checkbox :)
I'd probably leave it to Soren Hansen or Alexander Sack to make the call about this, since they are much more familiar with the package and code than I am, I think.
In terms of my personal opinion about this, i think we should probably bring up the patch even if it's not in upstream, if only because the functionality was there in Hardy... I think it's a general rule of thumb (or should be), that you don't want to take a feature out if it's being used. Then again, I am not a MOTU, only starting to get familiar with the guidelines, rules and all. Maybe it be a good idea to bring it up on the ubuntu-devel mailing list?
The fact that there is a bug open about this means that it is; but I'd be interested to know *how much*. I didn't notice much interest in trying to fix the bug in another way that the patch I'm proposing, and I'm since my UI skills are somewhat limited, it might take me a little while to get Dan's proposed way of fixing the bug to a working state -- so far, all I have is the modified UI in glade done. I'll be spending more time on it this weekend.
/ Matt