Re: GNOME Journal

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

Hey John,

John Stowers wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 18:45 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Sumana Harihareswara
> > <sumanah panix com> wrote:
> >         Sri, can you do an article on GNOME Shell extensions (with an
> >         emphasis on GNOME 3 of course) and have a draft to me by March
> >         20th?
> >         
> >         -Sumana
> > 
> > Yes, I believe I can.
> 
> Aside from making such an article most functional, could the marketing
> team please recommend that the g-s developers complete [1] the extension
> support [2] for the initial release?

I agree that it would be nice to have such support for 3.0. I suspect
that having it in place is beyond the capacities of the shell team
though.

Also extension support isn't just a question of having the necessary
capacities in GNOME Shell itself. We need distribution and installation
mechanisms in place. (I'm sure Owen could give you a better account of
this than I could.)

> This is important for two reasons, I think;
> 1) It is a rather uncontroversial idea that having an extension system
> is a good way to excite developers and power users (e.g. firefox/chrome
> extensions, the unity places api, etc)
> 2) It would look like a genuine gesture meant at addressing some of the
> power user uncertainty towards g-s. Much more genuine than the vague
> pointers [3] towards a 'power user panel' or 'tweak tool' that
> troublesome users might want to use to tweak g-s to their will.

I know there are some concerns about customisation and GNOME 3. A few
points here:

 * Some of us who are involved in marketing have already been pushing
for the GNOME tweak tool. We're aware that it needs to become a reality.
Would you be interested in working on this? Seriously - we'd love your
help.

 * We need to send out a clear statement about the plan for
customisation in GNOME 3 (we do have a strong story here, thankfully).
This is something that I'm currently working on, and I'm hoping to be
able to blog about it out soon.

Best,

Allan

> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643240
> [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621017
> [3]
> http://blogs.gnome.org/diegoe/2011/03/05/minimize-and-maximize-in-gnome3/comment-page-1/#comment-345 (and others)
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