Re: developing for gnome-shell

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Carlos Diógenes<cerdiogenes gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to make a magnifier for gnome-shell, but after reading a little
> about it GNOME Live I don't know how to proceed. What is the best way to
> develop it, as a plugin for mutter or inside gnome-shell?

It probably makes the most sense to do it inside mutter.

> I also don't understand right if gnome-shell will splited from mutter or
> not, since from some informations I understand that it's use mutter to not
> have to re implement all the window manager features (I read this in Owen
> blog), but in GNOME Live it's also state that in some point the Metacity
> code will be forked and made specific to gnome-shell. So what is the actual
> plan to the future?

gnome-shell will use mutter, there are no plans to make the two things
one codebase.  What is forked permanently is "mutter" versus
"metacity".