Re: Concerning the javascript code location and extensions

["D.H. Bahr" <dbahr uci cu>]

The fork option is under consideration but, as you said, there are obvious downsides. 
The thing with G3 fallback is also under consideration, is just that we would like to keep many of the Shell features, such as the Overview mode, for instance. 
Migrating our current solution from G2 to G3 is also a must do, as graphic acceleration is not present in every workstation in our deployment environment, but we would like to have Standard and Fallback modes as similar as possible. 

Best regards, and thanks to both of you for taking care about this.

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Sw.E. D.H. Bahr

Nova Desktop Development Leader

CESOL (Free/Libre Software Centre)

UCI (University of Informatics Sciences)

Havana, Cuba

El Fri, 02-09-2011 a las 16:20 +0200, Florian Müllner escribió: 
>     2011/9/2 Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan club fr>
> >         This can be easily done with a small JS extension, if it doesn't already
> >         exists. (Though, from a design POV, I really doubt moving the bar to the
> >         bottom is a good idea, since you need to put the messaging bar somewhere
> >         else.) 
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>     Moving the bar is easy, but making it work at the new position will be tricky - for instance, all menus will still open below the bar (read: offscreen), and changing this from an extension will require some rather ugly hacks.
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> >         > So in order to keep the old environment we would need to keep G2 and
> >         > G3 on the default system, and that would take just to much space for
> >         > our Install CDs.
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> >         Probably not. gnome-panel+metacity (GNOME3 fallback mode) don't take up
> >         much space since most of their dependencies are needed by GNOME3
> >         anyways. You would only need to port your changes to gnome-panel 3,
> >         which might be easy if you don't use too many deprecated internals. 
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>      I second that - GNOME3 fallback is much closer to being a platform to build-your-own than GNOME Shell. To get some more GNOME3 niceness, it is also possible to use gnome-panel + standalone mutter (for attached modal dialogs, tiling, improved theming ...).
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