People have long complained about the way the panel works behind the scenes. I believe some of the code is messy to keep it compatible with technology from the old gnome 1.x days. Even without gnome shell the whole thing was due for a rewrite anyway.
On 23 March 2010 16:22, Apoorva Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > Right now, gnome-panel is an extremely customizable and useful application. > Thanks to the many applets that have been written, it is getting better > every month. Furthermore, many of the improvements that are being made to > linux distributions are being made to the panel (i.e. the MeMenu in ubuntu > lucid). Meanwhile, in gnome-shell, the new panel presents the user with an > activities button, which opens the overlay, a useless indication of the > current running application, a clock, a notification area, and a user menu. > > In my opinion, the gnome-shell panel is a tremendous step backwards from the > current gnome panel. It loses the customizability, the applets, and puts > much of the efforts of current distributions, (i.e. ubuntu lucid's > application indicators, the messaging menu, etc.), to waste. > > I don't understand why Gnome-shell doesn't simply use the current > gnome-panel, with two modifications: an applet that works like the current > Activities button (which sends a signal to open the overlay), and if needed, > a current application indication. Is there something I'm missing, or a > reason why we need to replace the current, functional gnome panel? > > > -- > Apoorva Sharma > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > > _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
