Re: no external panels for gnome-control-center [was GNOME Feature Proposal: Backup]

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 02:00 +0200, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> Il giorno gio, 12/05/2011 alle 19.12 -0400, Matthias Clasen ha scritto:
> 
> > This is really starting to drift into a highly emotional and
> > non-productive direction.
> 
> I'm not emotional, just a little overemphatic :)
> 
> > Not allowing random third parties to put their pet projects
> > preferences into the very core of GNOME is very different from
> > censorship. It is maintaining meaningful boundaries between what is
> > GNOME and what is not.
> 
> Then, as I said on another reply, why are gnome-shell extensions allowed
> to change gnome-shell so deeply[1]? More, why is gnome-shell providing
> support to extensions?

Because people don't ship those as default. In exactly the same way that
you can build panels for the control-center very easily if you're a
developer, even though the headers don't get installed.

So if you wanted to hack on a new panel, you'd probably fork
gnome-control-center on github, and provide a mega patch for review in
bugzilla. As long as the panel was designed, and the services integrate
with the core of GNOME, and they serve a purpose for a large number of
our users, it'll get in.

> BTW "pet project"... IMHO "pet" is something that plays down the merits,
> isn't it?

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pet_project

> [1] see http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/extensions/index.html