Re: Metacity, Mutter, GNOME Shell, GNOME-2.28

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 10:28 -0700, Sandy Armstrong wrote:
> On 03/24/2009 08:47 AM, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > Using Compiz to create a GNOME desktop using GNOME applications, the
> > GNOME control-center, and so forth will of course remain possible. We
> > have no current plans to create hard dependencies on GNOME Shell within
> > the GNOME desktop (just as there are no hard dependencies on gnome-panel
> > now.)
> 
> Yeah, but I can still use gnome-panel in compiz.  I understand the 
> reasoning here, and don't have any suggestions or anything, but it's a 
> bit disappointing that the new desktop experience will be so tied to the 
> window manager.

Asking to leave all the compiz goodness will be a tough sell :)