Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

[jhs jsschmid de]

Hi!

>
> I think the community would love to see some more "why" behind the "how"
> :)
>
> For example I'd like to know why shell reinvents the graphical toolkit
> and comes with a (hardcoded?) theme which in turn makes it look out of
> place. Or why JS and not LUA or Python. I'm sure there was some
> evaluation behind these decisions but I'm not even sure where to dig.
>
> It's details like this that make the project look more like OpenOffice
> than a GNOME app ("here's the resulting code" versus "here are the
> plans and the rationale, please discuss").

Well, there is this link in the Technology"-section of
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell and it explaining some of these:
http://blog.fishsoup.net/2008/10/22/implementing-the-next-gnome-shell/

Regards,
Johannes