Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 8:53 AM, William Jon McCann < william.jon.mcc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > This would be a good FAQ. We really do need a gnome-shell FAQ I think. > I > > might help out on the whole community thing on shell if people are > willing, > > it depends on whether this six month

Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > > > What about a community team that gives a place for these issues to be > discussed in more depth? Thinking of something like the marketing team > but with a mission such as "Make GNOME a great place where contribute" > and of course, not ex

Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-03 Thread William Jon McCann
2010/6/3 Sriram Ramkrishna : > > > 2010/6/3 Andreas Nilsson >> >> On 06/03/2010 02:54 AM, Seif Lotfy wrote: >> >> >>> >>> And don't get me wrong -- I happen to disagree with some stuff they're >>> doing from time to time. But it doesn't mean I should stop trusting >>> them. >> >> But would't you l

Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
2010/6/3 Andreas Nilsson > On 06/03/2010 02:54 AM, Seif Lotfy wrote: > > > >> And don't get me wrong -- I happen to disagree with some stuff they're >> doing from time to time. But it doesn't mean I should stop trusting >> them. >> > > But would't you like to have the points you disagree with b

Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-03 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
2010/6/3 Sriram Ramkrishna : > > > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: >> >> the GNOME Shell design and development process, as somebody that looks >> at it (slightly) from the outside, and since its inception, has been >> nothing *but* open. it's your classic open source merito

Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-03 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 06/03/2010 02:54 AM, Seif Lotfy wrote: And don't get me wrong -- I happen to disagree with some stuff they're doing from time to time. But it doesn't mean I should stop trusting them. But would't you like to have the points you disagree with be discussed or reevaluated? I thin

Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:31 AM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > > the GNOME Shell design and development process, as somebody that looks > at it (slightly) from the outside, and since its inception, has been > nothing *but* open. it's your classic open source meritocratic project, > with two benevolent

Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-03 Thread jhs
Hi! > I think that from the outside is easy to misjudge things. Is anybody > reading this thread that has *both* gotten involved in GNOME Shell > development and also feels that the project is being unfairly driven > by a single company? I haven't contributed anything to GnomeShell (yet...) besid

Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-03 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 07:13, Sergey Panov wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 20:45 -0700, Sandy Armstrong wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Sergey Panov wrote: >> > I sense a suspicion from the outsiders (not RedHat employees) that >> > project is not just manned by the RedHat employees, but

Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-03 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le jeudi 03 juin 2010 à 12:12 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit : > Really, how is it different from what's happening in any other module? I > can certainly blame Guillaume and Xavier for not being able to have > metacontacts in empathy today while it's something I asked two years > ago; but they've cho

Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-03 Thread Vincent Untz
Le jeudi 03 juin 2010, à 11:54 +0200, Seif Lotfy a écrit : > On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Vincent Untz wrote: > > And don't get me wrong -- I happen to disagree with some stuff they're > > doing from time to time. But it doesn't mean I should stop trusting > > them. > > But would't you like t

Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-03 Thread Seif Lotfy
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Vincent Untz wrote: > Le jeudi 03 juin 2010, à 01:13 -0400, Sergey Panov a écrit : > > On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 20:45 -0700, Sandy Armstrong wrote: > > > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Sergey Panov wrote: > > > > I sense a suspicion from the outsiders (not RedHat e

Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-03 Thread Vincent Untz
Le jeudi 03 juin 2010, à 01:13 -0400, Sergey Panov a écrit : > On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 20:45 -0700, Sandy Armstrong wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Sergey Panov wrote: > > > I sense a suspicion from the outsiders (not RedHat employees) that > > > project is not just manned by the RedHat

Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-02 Thread Sergey Panov
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 20:45 -0700, Sandy Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Sergey Panov wrote: > > I sense a suspicion from the outsiders (not RedHat employees) that > > project is not just manned by the RedHat employees, but controlled by > > the company > > It's controlled by

Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-02 Thread Sandy Armstrong
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Sergey Panov wrote: > I sense a suspicion from the outsiders (not RedHat employees) that > project is not just manned by the RedHat employees, but controlled by > the company It's controlled by the people doing the work, like any other project. What does it mean t

Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-02 Thread Sergey Panov
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 11:31 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 11:57 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Owen Taylor wrote: > > > "The secret master plan" > > > > > > Boy do I wish I had a secret master plan tucked in a drawer > > > somewhere! It

Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-02 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 14:40 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 12:52 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > >> GNOME Shell is radically different here so it's not the "usual > >> case". I wondered not about the supposed one-up

Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-02 Thread Patryk Zawadzki
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 12:52 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: >>  GNOME Shell is radically different here so it's not the "usual >> case". I wondered not about the supposed one-upping the color choices >> but about actually using the current the

Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-02 Thread Piñeiro
From: Emmanuele Bassi >> It's details like this that make the project look more like OpenOffice >> than a GNOME app ("here's the resulting code" versus "here are the >> plans and the rationale, please discuss"). > > what's fundamental is that not everything should be open to discussion. > > sur

Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-02 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 12:52 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > > sure, if you disagree on the choice of colors in the CSS theme then you > > can discuss it with the UI design team - as long as you avoid > > bike-shedding them to death because that's not nice and all; but if you > > want to discuss th

Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-02 Thread Patryk Zawadzki
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 11:57 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: >> I think the community would love to see some more "why" behind the "how" :) >> >> For example I'd like to know why shell reinvents the graphical toolkit >> and comes with a (hardc

Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-02 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 11:57 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Owen Taylor wrote: > > "The secret master plan" > > > > Boy do I wish I had a secret master plan tucked in a drawer > > somewhere! It would be really useful > > > > To the extent we have a master pla

Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-02 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:57:49AM +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Owen Taylor wrote: > > "The secret master plan" > > > >  Boy do I wish I had a secret master plan tucked in a drawer > >  somewhere! It would be really useful > > > >  To the extent we have a mas

Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-02 Thread jhs
Hi! > > I think the community would love to see some more "why" behind the "how" > :) > > For example I'd like to know why shell reinvents the graphical toolkit > and comes with a (hardcoded?) theme which in turn makes it look out of > place. Or why JS and not LUA or Python. I'm sure there was som

Re: Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-02 Thread Patryk Zawadzki
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:11 AM, Owen Taylor wrote: > "The secret master plan" > >  Boy do I wish I had a secret master plan tucked in a drawer >  somewhere! It would be really useful > >  To the extent we have a master plan, it's in two documents >  that everybody has seen: > > http://www.gnom

Some notes on GNOME Shell

2010-06-01 Thread Owen Taylor
"The secret master plan" Boy do I wish I had a secret master plan tucked in a drawer somewhere! It would be really useful To the extent we have a master plan, it's in two documents that everybody has seen: http://www.gnome.org/~mccann/shell/design/GNOME_Shell-20091114.pdf http://live