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Re: [opensuse-gnome] Default extensions for our implimentation.
On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 08:31 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
Le lundi 21 mai 2012, à 14:40 -0700, Roger Luedecke a écrit :
We included some extensions to fix some issues with Gnome. I wrote an
article on extensions, and would like to submit the listed extensions in
that article for consideration.

http://opensuseadventures.blogspot.com/2012/05/getting-most-of-your-gnome-shell-with.html

It would help to list them in the mail so we can easily argue
for/against each of them :-)

In general, the fact that extensions are easily installable means that
we really don't need most extensions by default. We only need them if
they really fix a major issue.

Personally I would rather we didn't ship any extensions unless
absolutely necessary. Alternative Status had a valid argument put
forward and the consensus was in its favour. As I don't use a desktop
any more only laptop I wasn't overly affected either way.

I would rather we didn't bundle extensions but rather make it CRYSTAL
CLEAR as to where to get them and what they do. Maybe a greeter style
item or something?

Here's my opinion on the extensions you propose (and it's just my
opinion):

Alt-Tab switcher
=> it's a matter of taste. I'm perfectly happy with the new behavior,
for instance, since I got used to it.

I actually like the default behaviour.

Alternative Status Menu
=> that's the one we ship by default, because it annoyed too many
people to not have the Reboot/Power Off items. Not sure it still
works, though, since I disable it. We might need to take the version
from extensions.gnome.org

If I'm not mistaken this extension will soon be made obsolete by
upstream as they are working on re-integrating shutdown (or did I get
suckered by a joke?)

Network Connections
=> you can remove connections from the control center now, so the main
use case is less important. Also, I think it's confusing to have
both Network Connections and Network Settings in the menu by
default.

I don't see the need for this, I find network connections are easily
accessible.

Remove the Accessibility Icon
=> I don't think it's friendly to do this by default, as accessibility
user relies on this. But maybe we can ship the extension disabled by
default, given the number of people asking for this?

This should most definitely NOT be enabled by default. openSUSE is
already viewed by many as an inaccesible distro, and we should be making
moves to be more accessible not the other way round.

Notifications (that's just chat notifications)
=> No opinion, might be useful in the short term, but I think upstream
wants to fix the core issue another way for 3.6.

This is potentially useful, but is it worth having something for just
one release? I'd rather it wasn't a default and we highlight its
potential usefulness.

Calculator
=> nice, but clearly not something we need by default :-)

No need.

Media Player Indicator
=> with media keys, I've never felt the need for this. What is the
experience of others?

I really don't want to clutter things up, which IMHO this does. Banshee
already offers the functionality from its icon so why duplicate the
feature?

Advanced Settings
=> the advanced settings are not used often enough to be in the menu by
default, imho.

I have only used gnome-tweak-tool once, after first install. Again why
clutter things up?

Places Status Indicator
=> probably nice, but not something I'd use by default.

Possibly useful, although I never used that feature before and don't
miss it now. Again we shouldn't have it as a default but highlight it
for people should they wish to have it.

For the record, I don't think we should ship so many extensions by
default. Having one or two is fine, but more might cause issues with
updates, if it happens we have to ship a newer gnome-shell for instance.

I would rather we had no extensions shipped by default, but that's just
me :-)

Regards,

Andy

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