Hi,
I've been playing a bit with Gnome Shell, and, largely, I like what I'm
seeing. I'm just wondering, though, why the panel is being completely
re-implemented in a non-backwards-compatible way. I understand that the
panel is meant to be more closely integrated with the window management,
and I applaud this, but I don't understand why support for the myriad
panel applets that have been developed using the current system will be
dropped.
I see in the mailing list that there's discussion about the clock.
Wouldn't it make more sense to use the existing clock applet, which is
rich in functionality, rather than reinventing the wheel?
I know that Gnome Shell is powered by JavaScript, and that therefore
there are some issues with using applets written in C, but I honestly do
feel that writing some sort of wrapper to enable users to use whatever
existing applets they want would solve an awful lot of issues. For
example, users could enable the traditional GNOME menu as a way to 'get
used to the system'. Less time would be spent redeveloping functionality
that already exists in GNOME, and more time could be spent delivering a
really great UI and UX. I also think that take-up (by users and distros
alike) would be faster, as you wouldn't have people waiting for the
favourite applets to be 'ported' to the new system.
It's just my two cents, but I'm really interested in hearing the
responses from the devs (and non-devs, of course. ;))
Barry
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