Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

[Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com>]

From: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>

>> 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").
> 
> what's fundamental is that not everything should be open to discussion.
> 
> sure, if you disagree on the choice of colors in the CSS theme then you
> can discuss it with the UI design team - as long as you avoid
> bike-shedding them to death because that's not nice and all; but if you
> want to discuss the language of choice then you misunderstood how an
> open source project works. the gnome-shell developers decided, and you
> either follow them or you can start writing your own shell in your own
> language.

Probably offtopic, sorry, but ...

After read this paragraph, and reading again GS roadmap [1], I
realized that theming are not included in the issues listed on the
accessibility section of this roadmap. Anyway, Willie Walker
identified this as one of the big issues of GS towards GNOME 3.0. [2].

There is any possibility to include theming in the "accessibility
issue list" ?

As Emmanuele Bassi said, right now there are people with a deep
knowledge on design and usability working on GS, at it would be
awesome if they could be involved here (and it seems that they are
interested [3]).

BR

[1] http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/RoadmapTwoThirtyOne
[2] http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/GNOME3#Theming
[3] http://blogs.gnome.org/wwalker/2010/03/02/gnome-usability-hackfest/

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