On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:22:44AM -0500, Apoorva Sharma 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
The main maintainer doesn't have for it. There is no real progress. > 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 That is Ubuntu specific and not a panel improvement. > 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. Again, Ubuntu specific. This wasn't developed upstream (in GNOME). > 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? GNOME 3 will still have a gnome-panel, so you can still use it if you want. Per above, discussion regarding keeping gnome-panel is not needed (aside from being pretty offtopic for gnome-shell-list; gnome-shell developers do not decide if gnome-shell is in the default config), you will be able to use it if you wish. Of course, it'll keep the existing developer focus (almost none, interesting that you have a different opinion). -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
