On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 01:10 +0100, Mario Blättermann wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 04.01.2011, 00:41 +0100 schrieb Christopher Roy > Bratusek: > > > What about to have a gnome-shell with a fallback > > > mode which works (with function constraints) with the good old metacity > > > or other window managers? > > > > *that* would be a kick-ass to step back from "We force you to use Mutter, > > when > > you're going to use GNOME-Shell" attitude. I've been following the > > discussions > > from users point of view and lots (and I mean it) have complained about > > having > > to use Mutter in favour of their current WM. > > > I agree with you. In the last years, I've learned to appreciate GNOME > because of its modularity, which doesn't preclude integrity. Nowadays it > is still possible to drive a system with Openbox instead of Metacity and > without Nautilus at all.
this is what we don't want any more. this modularity, and the fact that you can voltronize anything and still call it "GNOME" is a maintainership hurdle and it stop a coherent vision of GNOME as an operating system. > In fact, GNOME is built on top of a basic > gnome-session. If it switches completely to mutter/gnome-shell or any > other thing which forces the user to use that and nothing else, we end > up in a desktop which is as strong bolted as Windows or MacOSX and get a > considerable part of the "freedom of choice" lost. GNOME is not about "choice"; it is about freedom, but the two are not related. > If this ever really happens, I will turn away from GNOME, I'm sure. this is part of the freedoms GNOME allows. ciao, Emmanuele. -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list