Re: My opinions on Gnome Shell

[Holger Berndt <berndth gmx de>]

On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:50:40 +0200, David Prieto
<frandavid100 gmail com> wrote:

> > But I still think that minimization should be kept because I'm 100%
> > sure that at least some applications will never evolve the way we
> > expect them to (split into a daemon and a UI), or it might take
> > years. 
> 
> They certainly never will if minimization is around. If it isn't,
> though... optimization will find a way :-D

Whether applications are split into a daemon and a UI or just use a
single process that can run headless (e.g. by hiding all windows) is
merely an implementation detail to be left to the application
developers, and doesn't influence the desktop design at all.

Holger