Johannes Schmid wrote: > Hi! > > > https://github.com/nzjrs/gnome-tweak-tool > > > > It requires a recent pygobject build has been tested on a jhbuilt shell, > > and Ubuntu Natty. > > > > I understand there is legitimate resistance to such a tool, as offering > > multiple customisation options could weaken the design and marketing > > message of the new shell. This is why I have not blogged nor posted this > > widely. On the other hand, such tools will inevitably appear to fill the > > power user niche so why not make the best of. I encourage the shell > > developers to take it as a compliment when people express interest in > > tweaking gnome-shell; it means they are using it and have not > > reflexively stayed with GNOME2 or moved elsewhere. > > > > So I am asking for feedback, both strategic and functional on the tool. > > It has a limited set of tweaks so far, but adding new ones is > > straightforward (see tweaks/tweak_*.py). > > There is an "official" effort for writing such a tool so please contact > desktop-devel-list
It has been discussed in the past, but nothing was ever done about it. The "official" line (though quite what that means in GNOME is anyone's guess ;) ) is that GNOME Shell / GNOME 3 is awesome as is. If John (or anyone else) wants to write a tweak tool, than that is totally cool though. Thinking about this a little more, one danger of this tool is that people immediately start using it with GNOME 3. I'd personally encourage everyone to try the new desktop for a protracted period of time before making any changes, however. It might take a little getting used to, but there are good reasons for the design being the way it is, and it really should offer a superior user experience to a customised version. > because people will be highly interested and there will > be not resistance. After all, this is nothing to ship by default but very > useful to power-users. > > And technically, pygobject seems a good choice! Yeah, great to see the new bindings in action! Nice work John. Best wishes, Allan -- Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
