Re: NLD10 and GNOME

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On 2/7/06, JP Rosevear <jpr novell com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 10:43 +0000, Jono Bacon wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Just a quick question to anyone who may be in the know. After seeing
> > the NLD10 videos, it seems the GNOME in there is rather similar to the
> > mockups shown at http://www.flickr.com/photos/gamehack/sets/1506658/
>
> Indeed, these mockups were made internally at Novell by the UI team
> (same guys that brought you betterdesktop).
>
> > I made a comparison in a blog post at
> > http://www.jonobacon.org/viewcomments.php?id=637 to outline the point.
> >
> > Do we know if these radical changes to GNOME have been implemented,
> > and if so, are the changes coming back to the community?
>
> The changes that were implemented were not as radical as the mockups.
> Basically what Nat F. showed in Paris is what was implemented.  The code
> will be released to the community soon.

To ask the obvious question, why not now, and why not discussed
publicly earlier?

Luis