I saw this week as a turning point for myself. Thanks to some helpfully critical reviews of my patches by fmeuller, I think I might be starting to get a better idea of what I'm supposed to be doing when it comes to sending in patches and writing git commit messages. For those interested in pictures, I blogged about moving the non-system icons to the message tray[1] a few days ago, and I'm still sorting through all the implications and difficulties of that. What I'd never had to realize until now is that the icons are little windows that the status tray implementation takes control of and tells them what size they should be. This makes bending them to the message tray's will a bit tougher.
Integrating these icons with the existing notifications, getting them all to match up and play nicely together, and trying to figure out how to cleanly deal with whatever menus and other functionalities the icons already implement is on the menu for this week. I've also been informed that there's some message tray reworking coming soon, so, we'll see how that fits in. Lessons learned this week: -git-bz is helpful once you make yourself learn hour to use it. -any git command is really dangerous if you don't know *exactly* how to use it. I will have to read up on git stash so I don't lose work again. -the gnome-shell looking glass (M-f2 lg RET) is quite useful, and you can click on all those underlined things to learn more about them! 1: http://perditusinventusque.blogspot.com/2010/06/gnome-shell-week-3.html _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
