Re: Windows 8-like tiles, tabs and more

[John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com>]

>  
> Another idea, this may also be suggested before, to use the GNOME
> shell tabs for microblogging. You can have a tab which integrates with
> Gwibber, and you will be able to post status updates directly through
> the shell. 

I suspect things like status updates should be implemented similar to
how the empathy in-shell chat works.

> 
> 
> Also, it would be nice if GNOME3 shell provided a button "Get more
> applications" in the bottom of the Applications tab, which can be
> configured (at build time/by GSettings) which command to launch. I
> know this can be created via an extension, but it would be nicer if
> it's provided upstream. Distribution developers can customize this for
> their distribution (for example, it will launch the Software Center in
> Ubuntu, Gslapt in Slackware, synaptic in Debian, etc.). 

I believe this is planned, via packagekit.

John

> 
> Thanks for reading
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