On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 18:18 +0000, Samuel Arthur Wright Illingworth wrote: > 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 Canonical is bringing transparency in GTK for ubuntu lucid and they are pushing the code upstream so its coming.
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