On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 20:23 +0100, Alberto Ruiz wrote: > 2009/3/30 Ted Gould <t...@gould.cx>: > > On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 12:07 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > >> So, basically, no I don't see a way that GNOME Shell coexists with > >> Compiz other than as two separate shells for the GNOME desktop. > > > > And I think that coexistence is part of the problem with GNOME Shell > > becoming the default GNOME interface. Distributions need something that > > can gracefully decline between a composited and a non-composited > > environment. Not saying that Compiz can do that today, but we > > effectively get that with the combination of metacity and Compiz and > > lots of nasty hacks. But, overall it works. > > > > For a GNOME Shell like project to be successful it will need to have > > either two backends or some sort of architecture that would allow for > > GNOME Shell features to be integrated in other less featureful > > shell-like tools. > > I don't get why that statement is true. For a GNOME Shell project to > be successful, it hast to be freakin good.
I could not have said this better. :-) - Owen _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list