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Neary: GNOME Census

Posted Jul 29, 2010 8:51 UTC (Thu) by rhertzog (subscriber, #4671)
In reply to: Neary: GNOME Census by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Neary: GNOME Census

The lack of applet support in Gnome-Shell is a problem. How are we supposed to use hamster in Gnome 3.0 for example ?

So it's difficult to criticize someone else doing things that need to ship now because they don't integrate into something that's not even fully designed and that has not shown how it's going to integrate everything that already exists.

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Neary: GNOME Census

Posted Jul 29, 2010 9:01 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

GNOME Shell wont have applets and this has been announced and explained a long time back. Regardless of the justification of that decision, it is no surprise to anyone. I don't have a problem with distributions shipping custom applets and patching applications to support a different API but if it is going to be part of an upstream community like GNOME, it requires more upfront discussions or the distribution will have to pay the cost (and reap the benefits) of the divergence.