Re: Fallback mode is going away - what now ?
- From: "Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>
- To: Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>
- Cc: GNOME release team <release-team gnome org>, Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org>, desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Fallback mode is going away - what now ?
- Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:36:36 -0500
The idea of using the web page as management was an idea that Owen had, and in some ways it was a logical progression of the "
addons.mozilla.org" experience: you get extensions from the web site, so why not enable/disable/configure/uninstall them from there too?
It's a good idea, but a myriad of technical issues (shoddy/broken network, pushing browsers to the limits, potential security problems with native code, broken by the "click to play" plugins model) prevent it from being as fluid and well-implemented as I had hoped.
Right now, the local experience for this is "use gnome-tweak-tool, which has a native UI" or "use the Extension List extension". If you want to design something better, feel free. I've been trying to get designers involved in the design of the website and extensions experience, but I haven't gotten any reception whatsoever from the 4 or 5 times I've tried to bring it up, so I dropped.
But this is getting off-topic. I wrote a giant rant as a G+ comment on some post that someone made about this mailing list thread. Summary: I don't feel the classic mode experience is a great long-term solution, but since we're used to just writing and shipping untested code, it's going to be what we do for now.
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