Planned GNOME Shell UI changes (was Re: String and UI Change Announcement)

2011-01-10 Thread Owen Taylor
On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 23:31 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: It probably makes sense at least for the shell team and for the people working on the default theme to tell gnome-doc-list how much of the UI can be expected to still change during that period. It'd be a shame to have people starting to

Re: Planned GNOME Shell UI changes (was Re: String and UI Change Announcement)

2011-01-10 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno lun, 10/01/2011 alle 12.33 -0500, Owen Taylor ha scritto: On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 23:31 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: It probably makes sense at least for the shell team and for the people working on the default theme to tell gnome-doc-list how much of the UI can be expected to still

Re: Planned GNOME Shell UI changes (was Re: String and UI Change Announcement)

2011-01-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 10 janvier 2011 à 12:33 -0500, Owen Taylor a écrit : * UI will be added for displaying information about fallback mode and forcing fallback mode when the system seems capable of doing a full composited desktop. (This is my biggest area of concern going into GNOME 3.0 - not

Re: Planned GNOME Shell UI changes (was Re: String and UI Change Announcement)

2011-01-10 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 19:03 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le lundi 10 janvier 2011 à 12:33 -0500, Owen Taylor a écrit : * UI will be added for displaying information about fallback mode and forcing fallback mode when the system seems capable of doing a full composited desktop.

Re: Planned GNOME Shell UI changes (was Re: String and UI Change Announcement)

2011-01-10 Thread Brian Cameron
It should be simple to enhance GDM to detect when OpenGL is not available, and avoid showing session-types that require it when it cannot be used. A general interface could eventually be implemented to support this, but it might be reasonable to just hardcode this behavior for known sessions

Re: Planned GNOME Shell UI changes (was Re: String and UI Change Announcement)

2011-01-10 Thread Owen Taylor
On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 18:52 +0100, Giovanni Campagna wrote: * A native network indicator applet will be added that works with NetworkManager 0.9 will be landing. (So don't screenshot the current nm-applet which doesn't even have symbolic icons for the panel) I'm not sure it

Re: Planned GNOME Shell UI changes (was Re: String and UI Change Announcement)

2011-01-10 Thread Dan Williams
On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 13:47 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 18:52 +0100, Giovanni Campagna wrote: * A native network indicator applet will be added that works with NetworkManager 0.9 will be landing. (So don't screenshot the current nm-applet which doesn't even

Re: Planned GNOME Shell UI changes (was Re: String and UI Change Announcement)

2011-01-10 Thread Owen Taylor
On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 19:03 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le lundi 10 janvier 2011 à 12:33 -0500, Owen Taylor a écrit : * UI will be added for displaying information about fallback mode and forcing fallback mode when the system seems capable of doing a full composited desktop.

Re: Planned GNOME Shell UI changes (was Re: String and UI Change Announcement)

2011-01-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 10 janvier 2011 à 14:00 -0500, Owen Taylor a écrit : On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 19:03 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Is it really necessary? wouldn’t it be simpler to let the user choose in GDM, provided the packages necessary for fallback mode are installed? There are multiple ways

Re: Planned GNOME Shell UI changes (was Re: String and UI Change Announcement)

2011-01-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le lundi 10 janvier 2011 à 10:29 -0600, Brian Cameron a écrit : It should be simple to enhance GDM to detect when OpenGL is not available, and avoid showing session-types that require it when it cannot be used. A general interface could eventually be implemented to support this, but it might

Re: Planned GNOME Shell UI changes (was Re: String and UI Change Announcement)

2011-01-10 Thread Andrew Cowie
On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 12:33 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote: * The default font will be changing to Cantarell Cantarell? If Cantarell is this, http://abattis.org/cantarell/ which says As my very first typeface design... designed for on-screen reading; in particular, reading web