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



Le mardi 31 mars 2009 à 14:10 -0400, Owen Taylor a écrit :
> I just don't think it makes sense to code GNOME Shell to the limitations
> of other pieces of the software stack. The effort to fix the other
> pieces of the stack - to create free software ways of doing thin clients
> with a composited snazzy desktop - is going to be comparable or less
> then the extra effort we'd need to put into GNOME Shell, and the end
> result is much better.
> 
> And the same applies to virtualized desktops, but more so. Don't put the
> effort into avoiding 3D. Put the effort into making 3D work.

It really sounds like the good thing to do, but I'm not convinced that
this will actually happen. No one has been really working on this in the
last years, and I don’t see any efforts in this direction currently.

I understand the rationale for going “full 3D” for GNOME Shell, but the
overall result is that we will have to maintain the gnome-panel +
metacity solution separately, for ever. This will not be a big burden,
but the real issue behind this is there will be two entirely different
user experiences.

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