Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

[Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:57:49AM +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote:
> > "The secret master plan"
> >
> >  Boy do I wish I had a secret master plan tucked in a drawer
> >  somewhere! It would be really useful....
> >
> >  To the extent we have a master plan, it's in two documents
> >  that everybody has seen:
> >
> > http://www.gnome.org/~mccann/shell/design/GNOME_Shell-20091114.pdf
> > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/RoadmapTwoThirtyOne
> 
> 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.

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell links to a blogpost explaining the
rationale

> 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").

Seems very open to me.

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Regards,
Olav