On Fri, 2008-12-19 at 00:21 +0100, Mark wrote: <snip>
Also if this isn't the way to get this in fedora then what is? this change will affect everyone and should not rely on one person but should have a solid base behind it.
Get the defaults changed upstream.
In this thread there are just a few -1 posts and the rest seems to be +1 so the solid base is building up here.
That's called a vocal minority, and is the reason why we don't have votes on mailing-lists for this sort of thing.
And if you think it's a matter of patching the package, note that for any GNOME packages you'll find in Fedora for which there are patches, you'll find those same patches/functionality being upstreamed.