On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 02:00 +0200, Luca Ferretti wrote: > Il giorno gio, 12/05/2011 alle 19.12 -0400, Matthias Clasen ha scritto: > > > This is really starting to drift into a highly emotional and > > non-productive direction. > > I'm not emotional, just a little overemphatic :) > > > Not allowing random third parties to put their pet projects > > preferences into the very core of GNOME is very different from > > censorship. It is maintaining meaningful boundaries between what is > > GNOME and what is not. > > Then, as I said on another reply, why are gnome-shell extensions allowed > to change gnome-shell so deeply[1]? More, why is gnome-shell providing > support to extensions?
Because people don't ship those as default. In exactly the same way that you can build panels for the control-center very easily if you're a developer, even though the headers don't get installed. So if you wanted to hack on a new panel, you'd probably fork gnome-control-center on github, and provide a mega patch for review in bugzilla. As long as the panel was designed, and the services integrate with the core of GNOME, and they serve a purpose for a large number of our users, it'll get in. > BTW "pet project"... IMHO "pet" is something that plays down the merits, > isn't it? http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pet_project > [1] see http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/extensions/index.html _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list