On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 11:25 +0100, Allan Day wrote: > Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > > Welp, I was going to have a thread announcing my work on this, but I > > guess I'll just hijack this one. > > I knew this was on the cards but I have to say that I am surprised that > it is actually being pursued in this form. > > Facilitating the unrestricted use of extensions and themes by end users > seems contrary to the central tenets of the GNOME 3 design. We've fought > long and hard to give GNOME 3 a consistent visual appearance, to make it > synonymous with a single user experience and to ensure that that > experience is of a consistently high quality. A general purpose > extensions and themes distribution system seems to threaten much of > that.
One particular issue is the ability for users to modify the top bar via extensions. This part of the UI is vital for giving GNOME 3 a distinctive visual appearance. If we do have extensions, I would very much like to see the top bar made out of bounds for extension writers, therefore. We have to have at least *something* that remains consistent. Allan -- IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
