Hi Christopher! > Besides... did modularity ever enslave a GNOME developer? Never. I expected > more than a statement like that.
This modularity prevents to create a solid user experience in various ways because everything needs to be compatible with random components that cannot even be tested properly. And to be honest, 99% of the user-base has used gnome-panel + metacity/compiz through the whole GNOME 2.x life-cycle so it is save to assume that customization is not a big feature. Have a look at the installations used by mainstream users (at hostels, internet cafés, universities, non cs-students) and you will hardly find anybody not using metacity (ok, or compiz, hardly any effects on) + gnome-shell. As mutter provides all the compositing already, the choice for compiz is obsolete. Having said this, GNOME 3 is still quite modular, you could even write a gnome-panel as mutter plugin and you can run GNOME 3 components with Unity or whatever. It won't be called vanilla GNOME though. Regards, Johannes _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
