On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Allan Day <allanp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Matthias Clasen <matthias.cla...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> to be fair, I'd envision this as a completely separate session that >>> you need to install and select, similar to what Ubuntu does — >>> especially if we want to call it "GNOME Classic". > > Agreed. > >> I don't think a separate session will work very well for this - for >> one thing, setting this up will require a number of settings to be >> tweaked (e.g. the one for the minimize button), and alternative >> sessions don't have the right infrastructure for that. > > A separate user session would be the best user experience, IMO.
If you think so, we'll have to discuss the technicalities of making that work. >> The session >> chooser on the login screen is not the best designed part of the login >> experience either. > > That's a non-argument. We can improve it. Indeed, that is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658593 > The Tweak Tool is *completely* the wrong place for this. In what way > is completely changing the shell a "tweak"? How does it make sense to > be able to completely change the experience using a setting that is > included in a non-core application, and which could later be removed? > What kind of experience will you get when the shell transitions to > "classic" mode right in front of the user's eyes? > > The Tweak Tool shouldn't have anything to do with extensions. They are > something that you install and run as a part of the system, not > something to be "tweaked" via settings. We may have to look over the tweak tool, then - enabling and configuring extensions is currently very much part of it. Thanks for chiming in; I appreciate it. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list