GNOME Shell, extensions, and control
GNOME Shell, extensions, and control
[Front] Posted Jun 15, 2011 16:03 UTC (Wed) by corbet
It has now been three months since your editor posted his experience with GNOME 3 and GNOME Shell. Much of the intervening time has been spent gaining more experience with the system; it even included getting a better video card to enable the full GNOME Shell experience. The time has now come to start playing with the GNOME Shell extension mechanism. Some interesting things can be done with extensions, but it has also come out that parts of the project are hostile to the very idea of GNOME Shell extensions. In the end, one may well wonder: who controls our desktop software?