Hi Sri, A good place to start is with the design overview document William Jon McCann and Jeremy Perry wrote[1].
Paul [1] http://www.gnome.org/~mccann/shell/design/GNOME_Shell-20090705.pdf On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <[email protected]> wrote: > So I'm trying to formulate my talk for Open Source Bridge in Portland in > June (http://opensourcebridge.org/events/2011/proposals) and since ithis is > after the release, I was hoping that I could concentrate on two things: > > 1) the philsophy behind the design of gnome shell - eg user flow and what > not > 2) a talk on extending gnome-shell > > I think in the past we've never really clearly defined why we designed our > desktop the way it is and a lot of people never understood it they always > saw it as "taking away features" and I want to talk about why it was > designed the way it is (why no applets etc) and the opportunities in > extending gnome-shell. > > This conference has a number of web programmers (look at the proposals) and > of course they all know javascript so it will be a great opportunity to > attract developers from that community to hack on gnome-shell and extend it. > > I'd like to partner with someone from gnome-shell team to talk about the > philosophy and work that went into designing gnome-shell. I think this > would be pretty helpful. For now I'm going to put in a stub since they are > gathering proposals now and then we can discuss in late April time frame > when gnome shell guys will not be so busy. > > sri > > -- > marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > > -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
