Re: Gnome Shell Extensions isn't shipped with Gnome Shell, WHY?!



On Tue, 2012-08-21 at 12:31 -0300, Pedro Bessa wrote:
> You're receiving lots of complaints, because of Gnome Shell's
> usability problems.

I've posted several messages about how great it is, and read several
such messages from other users.

> http://extensions.gnome.org/ has personalized solutions to Gnome
> Shell's usability problems, so you can listen to all complaints.
> You have to ship Gnome Shell with the gnome-shell-extensions-common 
> package, but that's not enough.
> People will use Gnome Shell, have problems and want solutions. If the
> solutions aren't visible, they'll drop or hate Gnome Shell.

Distributions - which is what users use - can choose to ship with any
extensions packaged or enabled that they like.

> There are two things you can do:
> 1. Ship Gnome Shell with the Dash to Dock extension and a hack to add 
> minimize and maximize, so people won't have problems.

NO, PLEASE - minimize must die.  

Note that if you install your extensions will will still be there after
you upgrade, etc... so you only need to ever do this once.

> 2. Put a launcher "Change Gnome Now" to http://extensions.gnome.org/ 
> in desktop, so people'll click it for solutions.

Actually an "Extension" section under "System Settings" would be nice.
But perhaps that is already in a GNOME Shell more current than mine.

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