On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Colin Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Sandy Armstrong <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hey folks, >> >> Taking a step back from the excitement over shiny new things, I was >> just wondering if somebody could give a few bullet points that explain >> what gnome-shell gives us over our current desktop experience. I feel >> like there's a lot of stuff that's different or missing but I'm not >> sure I'm understanding where it's "better". > > I see it as twofold: > * A visual refresh, using animations and graphics capabilities to enable new > UI that we couldn't do before. > * Fixing some design problems in the old UI, a few prominent ones of which > are: > - Make recent documents much more prominient > - Search for applications/docs > - Application based system
Thanks, this is the exactly the sort of thing I was looking for. It gives me some good context for evaluating gnome-shell. Much appreciated, Sandy _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
