Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (75 mails)

[Stephen Shaw <sshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Novell is contributing a lot of time and resources to the new at-spi
dbus stuff.  That's the area that our team is focusing on, so I'm not
sure what other groups are doing and we happen to be a SLED team :)
Our stuff is at http://www.mono-project.com/Accessibility

Stephen


On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Le samedi 02 mai 2009, à 00:05 +0200, Christian Jäger a écrit :
> > Am Freitag, den 01.05.2009, 23:46 +0200 schrieb Vincent Untz:
> >
> > > > Anyway, what do you think will the business-novellanians do about the
> > > > GNOME 3 thang? I cannot imagine SLED going that path. Thus I have an
> > > > even harder time believing Novell will be a positive force in GNOME 3's
> > > > development.
> > >
> > > Why?
> >
> > SLED has a profile as an alternative to Windows that doesn't require
> > re-learning how to handle a computer. GNOME 3 with gnome-shell as its
> > primary interface will certainly not feel familiar to ex-Windows-users.
> > Thus I don't think Novell has an interest in developing it.
>
> A few quick comments:
>
>  + GNOME 3 is more than just GNOME Shell :-) There are many other things
>   that are happening
>
>  + I know nearly nothing about SLED business, but I can imagine that
>   some people will want SLED with GNOME Shell because it's good
>
>  + there will most probably a gnome-panel 2.30 that will behave like the
>   gnome-panel that you have right now, but that will be 3.0-ready for
>   people who don't like GNOME Shell, or companies who need something
>   more "usual"
>
>  + I didn't hear anything negative from Novell people about GNOME 3 so
>   far. Maybe I'm not listening enough, though ;-)
>
> (good timing, btw: I've started working on a gnome-shell package
> yesterday)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Vincent
>
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