Fixing GNOME3 "regressions" in 13.1.0

Gonzalo Odiard gonzalo at laptop.org
Fri Sep 21 16:40:23 EDT 2012


On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> > Its not really clear what they want on that ticket. If they just want
> > the nautilus-driven desktop back, its easily doable.
>
> I believe that that's what they want. Others have definitely
> complained about the regressions (or "lockdown") of our GNOME desktop.
>
> I also observe that "how do I return to Sugar?" used to be visibly
> obvious, and now it is fairly hidden.
>
> > But its not clear to me if we want to do that by default (is that what
> > you are suggesting?).
>
> Yes, that's what I am proposing, and yes, I think we want it.
>
>
I agree on this part.



> We will also need to tweak the height of top and bottom bar (and of
> the buttons therein) to make them useful in a Touch UI.
>
>
IMHO making Gnome really usable in Touch mode will be a huge task,
and in a code base in the practice abandoned, as the fall back mode.
I don't know if is doable in the timeframe we have.

Gonzalo



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