Re: Communicating to users what GNOME 3.0 is

[Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan ubuntu com>]

Thanks Paul,
Ok my idea is "Debunking Gnome 3 myths" 
Im very familiar with Gnome shell and zeitgeist(and the activity
journal) so on that end I can write up something good. The mallard
migration needs a bit of describing please. Does it make the docs look
nicer or do anything particularly different to regular old dockbook? The
tomboy online thing is a little bit old news ubuntu 9.10 had cloud sync
by default already. Other than the stuff you listed the only other
things that come to mind are deprecations clean ups, the use of
javascript and migrations to newer technologies by default(clutter,
cairo).

Regards
Shane 

On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 21:25 -0600, Paul Cutler wrote:
> Shane,
> 
> On 01/13/2010 07:21 PM, Shane Fagan wrote:
> > Hey Stormy,
> > 
> > I completely agree, just a few questions for clarification. what would
> > you like for us to convey in the blog posts about gnome 3? Just that
> > change happens and its badly needed? There is still a lot of confusion
> > in the community what is going to be included in gnome 3. Its a redesign
> > of the desktop experience but will it just be the main interface or will
> > programs follow suit and use clutter too? Is zeitgeist going to be
> > included as part of the default gnome stack?
> > Ill write something up and do some screenshots if the release team can
> > answer these questions. 
> > 
> > Regards
> > Shane Fagan
> 
> These are all great questions.  In the talk that I've given a few times,
> I try and highlight that GNOME 3 is much more than just Shell.  Though
> Shell is front and center as it's the user experience, there's a lot
> more going on:
> 
> * GNOME Activity Journal (A new way to find and manage your data on your
> desktop)
> * Tomboy Online (With the Snowy server users will be able to sync their
> notes online and access and share them from the web)
> * New and updated user help (The doc team is re-writing the user and
> accessibility guides in Mallard with a focus on topic based help, as
> well as a number of applications' help being re-written in Mallard)
> * Accessibilty - GNOME Magnifier will be built in to the Shell, all the
> Corba stuff is deprecated, new text to speech in GNOME Speech Dispatcher
> * Marketing (new website, brainstorming about videos, etc)
> 
> And I'm sure there's more that I'm missing!
> 
> Thanks for helping with this!
> 
> Paul