[ I've intentionally kept this proposal short rather than trying to answer every possible concern; if you have questions, feel free to ask them now or during the module discussion period in May.
I'll be largely away from my mail for the next few days, so I'll probably respond to questions in a batch rather than replying to mails individually. ] Purpose: GNOME Shell provides core user interface functions for the GNOME 3 desktop, like switching to windows and launching applications. GNOME Shell takes advantage of the capabilities of modern graphics hardware and introduces innovative user interface concepts to provide a visually attractive and easy-to-use experience. Target: Desktop Release Set Dependencies: Mutter: Will be proposed as a desktop release set module GJS: Will be proposed as a desktop release set module gobject-introspection: Will be proposed as a desktop release set module The most controversial dependency is indirect; GJS brings in a dependency on the Spidermonkey Javascript engine. This is universally packaged on distributions shipping GNOME since it is required by Firefox and Thunderbird, however it doesn't align particularly well with the move of GNOME to webkit for embedded web browsers. My general feeling is that this is more of a conceptual problem than something that will have an actual impact on end users and resolving it isn't the best use of developer time at this point. Resource usage: tarballs: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-shell/ source control: git://git.gnome.org/gnome-shell bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org, gnome-shell product Adoption: GNOME Shell packages exist for most major Linux distributions; since GNOME Shell has not yet had a stable release, no distribution is shipping it by default. At the current time, GNOME Shell is suitable for day-to-day use by more adventurous users. GNOME-ness, community: The design of GNOME Shell was originally developed at the GNOME user-interface hackfest in October 2008; subsequent development has occurred within the GNOME community, and GNOME Shell was an extensive topic of discussion at GCDS 2009. Other notes: A draft of a 2.31 development roadmap can be found at: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/RoadmapTwoThirtyOne This outlines major areas where we are planning work over the next 4-5 months. (Topics are listed roughly in order of importance - performance, filling out the story of how GNOME Shell interacts with applications, and accessibility are towards the top of our list, while a working extension ecosystem, while it would be nice to have, is not a blocking issue.) _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
