On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:57:49AM +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Owen Taylor <otay...@redhat.com> wrote: > > "The secret master plan" > > > > Boy do I wish I had a secret master plan tucked in a drawer > > somewhere! It would be really useful.... > > > > To the extent we have a master plan, it's in two documents > > that everybody has seen: > > > > http://www.gnome.org/~mccann/shell/design/GNOME_Shell-20091114.pdf > > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/RoadmapTwoThirtyOne > > I think the community would love to see some more "why" behind the "how" :) > > For example I'd like to know why shell reinvents the graphical toolkit > and comes with a (hardcoded?) theme which in turn makes it look out of > place. Or why JS and not LUA or Python. I'm sure there was some > evaluation behind these decisions but I'm not even sure where to dig.
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell links to a blogpost explaining the rationale > It's details like this that make the project look more like OpenOffice > than a GNOME app ("here's the resulting code" versus "here are the > plans and the rationale, please discuss"). Seems very open to me. -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list