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A Linux Mint 12 previewA Linux Mint 12 previewPosted Nov 7, 2011 15:18 UTC (Mon) by patrick_g (subscriber, #44470)Parent article: A Linux Mint 12 preview
The big news is "MGSE (Mint Gnome Shell Extensions). With this we will be able to use Gnome 3 in a traditional way (bottom panel, tray icons, etc).
I hope these Extensions will be available on all distros.
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A Linux Mint 12 preview Posted Nov 7, 2011 15:28 UTC (Mon) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]
Agreed on all counts; their solutions for the direction of GNOME are much more important and exciting than their search engine choices, and even though I'm a longtime KDE user I hope what Mint is doing makes its way to other distributions.
A Linux Mint 12 preview Posted Nov 7, 2011 17:04 UTC (Mon) by andrewsomething (subscriber, #53527) [Link]
There source seems to be hosted on GitHub:
A Linux Mint 12 preview Posted Nov 8, 2011 1:14 UTC (Tue) by elanthis (guest, #6227) [Link]
Now if only they had bothered to merge the two panels' functionality, so I didn't need to bounce back and forth between the top and bottom of a 30" monitor ever. There's no real reason to have both; the top one doesn't even have anything on it, really, so it's not like you need two panels to fit all the functionality. App menu, modern dock, notification icons, calendar, workspace switcher... that's all you need. IMO, anyway.
A Linux Mint 12 preview Posted Nov 8, 2011 3:55 UTC (Tue) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]
> Now if only they had bothered to merge the two panels' functionality
Yes, would be really nice to have.
However, they did excellent work there nonetheless. Once a "true" workspace switcher extension crops up (the one that actually shows windows on workspaces), I think the sanity will be completely restored.
PS. Amazingly _multiple_ people/groups produced slightly different solutions to what is "overview bug". If that's not indicative of the brokenness of it, I don't know what is.
A Linux Mint 12 preview Posted Nov 8, 2011 19:07 UTC (Tue) by ovitters (subscriber, #27950) [Link]
There is no logic in your PS. Happily using gnome-shell, and various people will be using KDE, XFCE, Windows, etc.
A Linux Mint 12 preview Posted Nov 8, 2011 20:12 UTC (Tue) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]
> There is no logic in your PS.
Apparently, none that you can see.
A Linux Mint 12 preview Posted Nov 9, 2011 0:13 UTC (Wed) by csigler (subscriber, #1224) [Link]
Have you not heard of open source developers and users scratching their own itch? Really?
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