On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 00:00 +0100, Armin K. wrote: > I forgot to mention that it is becoming more and more integrated with > systemd for user session management, so it is just matter of time where > systemd will be required.
Yeah, that's true enough. I don't necessarily see that as a bad thing though - they're asking the question "how do we do this now?" rather than "how would we have done this twenty years ago?" And I don't have a problem with that - ignoring the lessons of the past is a bad thing, but so is using them as an excuse to not try anything new. > Have you ever looked at what GNOME Shell looks like? It looks nearly the > same as the stuff on smart phones (Android, iOS) or, at least, it > behaves like it. You can look at youtube or google pictures and see what > I am talking about. Um, are we talking about the same Gnome Shell? Because speaking as an everyday Shell user - no, no it doesn't. There's no resemblance in behaviour, nor in appearance unless you think the panel being black counts... Seriously, I don't get why people think G3 is something weird and alien. It's not - it's a traditional desktop in almost every way, barring the use of the Activities pane for launching apps. There's really nothing all that odd about it. > > Now, we are responsible for PC world, not touch world and GNOME will > soon have no place in PC world if it continues like this. Pretty much every major desktop manufacturer is bringing out hardware with a touch-screen these days, part of supporting Windows 8. Are you sure there's such a difference between the two? Besides, Gnome's touch support is actually pretty poor still - all those conventional drop-down menus are impossible to use with fat fingers. And the reason it's poor is that despite what so many people claim, it's *not* designed as a touch interface. It's a regular desktop, running all the regular desktop apps. > (Found the GNOME 4 news > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE0ODg) Eh, Phoronix... not what I'd call the most reliable source... one step up from an advertising link farm. But still, so we have a couple of Gnome devs who think that a focus on mobile and touch is a good idea. That's not exactly official policy announcement, and there's really not very much discussion on those lines on any of the Gnome mailing lists... Simon.
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