Re: An intention note

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 13:57 +0200, Kao Chen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am sorry to ask this question only now, but I was in a huge
> discussion about GnomeShell, and I discovered that many people,
> including me, haven't got a clear vision of the Gnome3 final
> objectives neither the ways to achieve them. Everybody is agree to say
> that is a complete rewriting of the interface, but nobody knows in
> which direction.
> 
> The two documents, that we have found, provide a list of research
> points, and a few questions to ask, but they don't give a clear vision
> of the objectives.
> 
> A simple intention note, in few lines, may help us to easily
> understand the main goals. We need a quickly description of the
> objectives, the main principals and some technical means to achieve
> them.

Hi Kao,

It's really not easy to say all this in a few lines! The above is what
the design document attempts to do; I'm not sure it can be compressed to
just a few lines.

Really, the best way to work on GNOME Shell design is to talk to Jon
McCann and the other designers on IRC and find out what help is needed;
what are the particular areas that need design input.

There's also a ui-review keyword in bugzilla that is applied to bugs
with a design component, but unfortunately, it's there on both bugs that
have open design questions, and bugs where the design questions have
been resolved and its waiting on implementation, so it's not that great
to search on.

There's a standard time from 18:00-20:00 UTC on Wednesdays on the
irc.gnome.org:#gnome-shell channel for design discussions, but if that's
not a convenient time for you, then feel free to drop in at any time.
(Probably the most likely time to find people around is from
14:00-00:00 UTC.)

- Owen