[Trisquel-users] Re : Idea about a new DE Shell (What is your opinion ?)

[magicbanana]

Just to be sure: You guys (aliasbody and miga) are aware of the extensibility  
of GNOME Shell through this amazing site, aren't you? I would say that GNOME  
Shell is *highly* customizable via such extensions in Javascript (rather than  
Scheme, which is supposed to be the preferred language to extend GNU  
programs). Bradley Kuhn seems to be of the same opinion. In fact, he even  
said (in this oggcast probably) that GNOME Shell is the Emacs of the desktop  
because of its easy extensibility. As far as I understand, the Cinnamon  
desktop environment mainly is GNOME Shell + some extensions.

So, my question is: don't you think you could achieve your goals by writing  
extensions to the GNOME Shell? It looks thousands of times easier than  
creating a whole desktop environment from scratch. It would also avoid  
community fragmentation (I am mainly thinking about developers).