Hi! > To try and make GNOME Shell integrate with multiple window managers > would either greatly constrain the user interface vision or greatly > increase the amount of work involved. The power of the GNOME shell > approach is that we are working within the desktop scene graph of the > window manager/compositor. > > Using Compiz to create a GNOME desktop using GNOME applications, the > GNOME control-center, and so forth will of course remain possible. We > have no current plans to create hard dependencies on GNOME Shell within > the GNOME desktop (just as there are no hard dependencies on gnome-panel > now.) I think we kind of loose the direction of this discussion here. IMHO, users don't care about window managers at all (have you ever asked a Windows/Mac user about a window manager?). My point is that it should be possible to use mutter without gnome-shell because there might be use-cases where the gnome-shell model does not fit. The other way round is not very interesting because gnome-shell tries to create a new user model for the whole desktop which of course includes lots of stuff that were historically tied to window management. If someone wants to implement a window manager compatible with mutter that gnome-shell can use - that's ok, but it shouldn't be something GNOME Shell development should care about in the first place. Regards, Johannes
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