On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 10:02 +0100, Andrew Wafaa wrote: > Personally I would rather we didn't ship any extensions unless > absolutely necessary. Alternative Status had a valid argument put > forward and the consensus was in its favour. As I don't use a desktop > any more only laptop I wasn't overly affected either way. > > I would rather we didn't bundle extensions but rather make it CRYSTAL > CLEAR as to where to get them and what they do. Maybe a greeter style > item or something?
I'm generally in agreement. I think it is a much better experience for users to get the standard GNOME and then have a very easy way of being aware and able to choose extensions. After all, isn't openSUSE about choice? :-) I read somewhere, although I seem to be missing this email now, that someone proposed making e.g.o a bookmark when we ship Firefox. If that's a legitimate proposal, I'm against this as the answer to extensions. Why would a user think to configure his/her desktop by going to a browser instead of some settings area? I'd rather see something in our menu, such as "Desktop Extensions" or "Extend your Desktop." Something like that. Although I can see a few problems with this idea as well, such as your default chosen browser may not support the e.g.o plugin, thus clicking on the menu item bringing up your browser may not be effective. Or, if your browser is already open but buried under other windows, a user might keep clicking and clicking on the menu item wondering why nothing's happening. :-) Another drawback is how to keep your extensions updated when people are less likely to revisit e.g.o to check on the status of their installed extensions? I haven't visited e.g.o in months. On a side note, and this is not meant to disparage Cinnamon, I find the way Cinnamon ships extensions problematic for standard GNOME. I tried Cinnamon once a few months ago for only like 5 minutes (just to see) and when I quickly went back to GNOME, ugh, all those new extensions were enabled and I had to try to weed through and figure out which ones were extensions *I* enabled versus ones that Cinnamon forced on me. Bryen M Yunashko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
