Hi all, On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 7:31 PM, Tim <[email protected]> wrote:
> We have avoided shipping additional extensions (apart from the official > ones in gnome-shell-extensions) for a number of reasons: > > - We aim to ship a vanilla gnome experience, and really most extensions > become user preference, they are for the most part a niche, and if not > (and everyone on the planet really wants a particular extension), then it > should be proposed for inclusion into core gnome-shell. > - Extensions break with most new releases and many lack proper > maintenance, they can be slow to be fixed, and are a nightmare to package, > for > the most part there is not even proper versioning on the releases.. > - Many extensions ultimately get abandoned when the original author gets > bored with them and never picked up by others. > > Based on the above, I am against even having any extra extensions > available in the archives, i'm certainly not going to install them by > default. > Ditto and big +1 :) > For what its worth we had all sorts of breakage when we uploaded > gnome-shell 3.16 to wily, caused by the dozen or so extensions that synced > from > debian. > I'd add to that, I'm all into stable system rather than trying to please everyone which is a key/way to failure. > > It seems to me that it would be best to just have a page on the new > website that highlights a bunch of the more popular extensions, people can > then go to e.g.o and install the ones they like. > Very good idea, or someone could send the proposed text here and we can add that to our Wiki as well. > > Tim > > > On 02/08/15 18:49, Patrik Bubák wrote: > > Umm... you know there's list view, right? > > > > On Sun, 2015-08-02 at 10:45 +0200, Narcis Garcia wrote: > >> Applications names seem to appear cut! > >> > >> > >> El 02/08/15 a les 10:13, Patrik Bubák ha escrit: > >> > This is the first time I have tried the Gno-menu extension in LTS, not > >> > sure how many more functions it has with newer versions, but I would > >> > really love to see this included by default instead of the poor > >> > Applications menu that has not much to offer compared to Gno-menu. > >> > > >> > https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/608/gnomenu/ > >> > -- > >> > *Patrik Bubák* > >> > Ubuntu GNOME Artwork team <https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugnome-artwork > <https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntugnome-artwork>> > >> > | Behance.net <http://behance.net/inoki> > >> > > >> > Sent using Evolution <https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution/> > >> > > >> > Nothing ruins creativity like too many voices weighing in. We call it > >> > the /Ice Cream Principle/. Tell 10 people to go get ice cream with one > >> > condition: they all have to agree on one flavour. That flavour is > going > >> > to be chocolate or vanilla every time. Groups of people don't agree on > >> > what's cool or interesting, they agree on what's easy to agree on. > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > -- > > Sent using Evolution <https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution/> from > Ubuntu <http://ubuntu.com/desktop> > > > > Nothing ruins creativity like too many voices weighing in. We call it > the /Ice Cream Principle/. Tell 10 people to go get ice cream with one > > condition: they all have to agree on one flavour. That flavour is going > to be chocolate or vanilla every time. Groups of people don't agree on > > what's cool or interesting, they agree on what's easy to agree on. > > > > > > > > > -- > Ubuntu-GNOME mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-gnome > -- Remember: "All of us are smarter than any one of us." Best Regards, Ali/amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad> *http://kibo.computer <http://kibo.computer>* - http://torios.net - Ubuntu GNOME <http://ubuntugnome.org/>
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