2010/1/17 Joern Konopka <[email protected]> > > Hi All, i hope i did everthing right considered this is my first Mailing > List Answer EVER, but i just wanted to lose some words about the Live > Wallpapers. > > Im not gonna delve into the discussion about Nautilus drawing the Icons > since its quite a Topic for itself. > > I think implementing Live Wallpapers at this point of gnome-shell > development is just too much to ask for honestly, it might look nice at > first sight but we really should focus on more important stuff right now > like f.e. getting an Extension System rolled out, have some Customization > Options integrated into the Shell for switching the Black Look to something > more personalized (some people love a pink or blue background, simple as > that), make the new Notifier System really usable (in a PRODUCTIVE way), > have good Zeitgeist Integration thats really giving User advantages while > browsing Recent Files, have more Keyboard Actions for the Shell so people > wont have to click on pretty much everything and so on and so on, i could > point out a list of maybe 50 features and the Live Wallpapers would be way > below that list. > > Im not saying it totally sucks, maybe some people will actually like it, > but we should focus on giving everybody a good Working Experience for the > Everday Tasks before we start thinking about Features that exist mainly for > Eyecandy. > > I wish I didn't, but I agree with that. Gnome-Shell (and Gnome 3 in general) should be functional before it's pretty.
The problem with that, if Gnome 2 is anything to go by, is the developer attention may *never* go to making it all look sexy, especially not in terms of additional features rather than just changing the colours. For example, we still don't have global support for transparency in GTK. -- Sam Illingworth Sent from London, Eng, United Kingdom
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