Re: Icons on the desktop

[Ryan Peters <sloshy45 sbcglobal net>]

On 06/15/2010 03:35 AM, Kao Chen wrote:

I think also that is a good idea to change the desktop approach.
But I think that it could be heavy of consequences on the Gnome-Shell design . The conversion of the desktop is a major change for an interface and we need to decide at the beginning. I understand that we integrate a such change in several times but we need to decide now. If we add it later, It will be hard to get a good integration and keep  the consistency of the design.

Regards,
Kao

2010/6/14 <jhs jsschmid de>

Hi all!

> At this point, I think it is silly to still have file management as
> the largest, most personalized and immediately accessible thing in
> Gnome 3.

All this is already covered in the design document:
"In the Shell design, the "desktop" folder should no longer be presented
as if it resides behind all open windows. We should have another way of
representing ephemeral and working set objects."

See http://people.gnome.org/~mccann/shell/design/GNOME_Shell-20091114.pdf
page 42. The though is to replace it with a journal in the long term.

Regards,
Johannes

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This is what I was afraid of. There's so much we could still do with GNOME Shell that hasn't been done or officially decided upon yet, and it's scheduled to be released in only three months! I really love GNOME Shell, but I don't want it to turn into a mini-KDE4 or a mini-Vista. GNOME 3 should be stable and feature-complete by its first release and I don't think we have enough time to get everything integrated and to have all of the expected features and functionality present.

I know I have absolutely no authority over this project as I am just a community member, but I propose the idea that GNOME Shell be released as a "developer preview" in September so developers and testers like myself could get used to it and have a nice period of time to integrate their projects with the Shell and make sure everything works how it should (plus, this would give us a lot more time to "finalize" how Shell is supposed to be from the input of the developers). There's already so much missing like zeitgeist integration, the Gnome Activity Journal (which needs re-designing and better integration) as well as the re-designing of the desktop.

The reason I suggest this is so we have a good first impression on the world for the first release, and after what happened to KDE4 this is what GNOME should try to avoid; many people including myself believe that GNOME Shell isn't exactly "ready for the public" (even though I'm using it right now and love it) and an extra six months would be a perfect amount of time to get everything integrated and functional as it is planned.

    -Ryan Peters, GNOME Shell tester.

PS: Remember this is just a proposal by a community member and that what I say has no effect on what could happen with the project unless the heads/developers of the project agree.