Comments on: GNOME Shell Status – 2008-11-23 http://blog.fishsoup.net/2008/11/22/gnome-shell-status/ Owen Taylor on Coding, Food, etc. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:41:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: anonim http://blog.fishsoup.net/2008/11/22/gnome-shell-status/#comment-1790 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:13:18 +0000 http://owtaylor.wordpress.com/?p=78#comment-1790 Any further updates?

]]> By: snuxoll http://blog.fishsoup.net/2008/11/22/gnome-shell-status/#comment-1788 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:44:56 +0000 http://owtaylor.wordpress.com/?p=78#comment-1788 @Mackenzie Docks do not have inherint usability issues, to be honest I’d say Windows 7 of all things proves this. In fact, if we could somehow implement something similar I’d be all for it.

In general regards to this post, I’m not a big fan of the shell. First and foremost it brings back bad memories of explorer.exe, I’m not a big fan of my entire desktop going down because one process is trying to do it all. I’m also not a big fan of these new UI concepts, I think they are un-gnome-like and it’s going against the grain for little to no benefit. I don’t see how you can implement window managment with such a convoluted UI, and I don’t get why you’re essentially building all of this into metacity instead of supporting the compiz project (which you are effectively killing off with this) and just building a better panel and desktop.

I fear what GNOME is about to become, and unless I see some better demos for the shell I’m finding it hard to keep my enthusiasm for GNOME 3.

]]> By: George http://blog.fishsoup.net/2008/11/22/gnome-shell-status/#comment-1778 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 16:19:49 +0000 http://owtaylor.wordpress.com/?p=78#comment-1778 Wow! Wanda lives! This is apparently my most enduring contribution to GNOME!

BTW, the rest looks very cool too. I’m glad that that horrible panel is going to be gone. That guy who maintained it for the first few years of GNOME was a hack.

George

]]> By: DanieleDM http://blog.fishsoup.net/2008/11/22/gnome-shell-status/#comment-1774 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:08:21 +0000 http://owtaylor.wordpress.com/?p=78#comment-1774 cite:
One thing we have discussed is moving the background drawing to the shell and making the file manager window a big ARGB window with a transparent background.

that will be lovely, keep the good work ;)

]]> By: Vadim P. http://blog.fishsoup.net/2008/11/22/gnome-shell-status/#comment-1764 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:39:59 +0000 http://owtaylor.wordpress.com/?p=78#comment-1764 @Mackenzie: While I’d agree that is the case for Cairo-Dock or whatever else, my AWN only bounced icons when attention is needed – so selecting a window is a snap and easy to do.

Plus, icons with tooltip text is way better than icons + text.

]]> By: Owen http://blog.fishsoup.net/2008/11/22/gnome-shell-status/#comment-1763 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:26:22 +0000 http://owtaylor.wordpress.com/?p=78#comment-1763 Please note:

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell

Has links to the mailing list and IRC channel for gnome-shell. Those are generally better places than comments here for extensive discussion and for getting help with building gnome-shell.

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