Re: GNOME3 reality check

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:26 PM, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
>>
>> - seamless fallback to panel/metacity in 'hw sucks' situations
>
> I really just need to steal some code to detect the 'hw sucks'
> situations and integrate that in gnome-session. We can then do some
> magic to know what to launch. If someone wants to do the stealing part
> for me, this will move a bit faster (I'm currently fixing last-minute
> bugs for openSUSE 11.3)

Hey, at least thats more of a plan than I knew of so far. The
desktop-effects capplet that we ship in Fedora has some (pretty weak)
code for doing this.

>> - system status / notifications separation, symbolic icons
>> - working message tray / telepathy integration
>> - at least a basic implementation of 'finding and reminding'
>> - complete control center panel conversion
>> - basic shell a11y and magnifier integration
>>
>> Feel free to correct this list if I forgot something, or if you think
>> these are not essential.
>
> That list makes sense to me.

I would still love to hear some feedback from the shell and
control-center guys on it...