Bug#1120511: I would half agree

[Kai Storbeck]

Hello,

I had the same banner, and I got a bad taste in my mouth. Happily a 
debian fellow pointed me to this bug. Jay!

Part of me wishes to see GNOME to be or become a healthy organization. I 
disagree with the path taken.

Nagging users of free software with popups will inevitably lead to a 
screen full of banners. Then a counter movement will spring to life and 
software will be created to do ad blocking in the notificationstream.

I think it is a very unwise decision to allow for this.

Has debian pondered allowing the gnome project a small banner on the 
debian.org website? Has GNOME pondered giving a talk on Fosdem (eg) to 
announce the financial problems? There's so much more options than 
littering a notification channel.


Regards,
Kai