On 02/01/2013 03:41 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
The defaults are simple but GNOME Shell UI is actually extremely customizable. The entire UI is just scriptable widgets, With extensions you can modify anything you want. It even has a javascript debugger built-in. It is pretty similar to Firefox in that regard.
When it first came out, there were a number of things that couldn't be changed at all, such as the fact that there was exactly one panel and it was always on top. Then, people started writing extensions to allow you to change bits and pieces of this, but the Gnome devs were adamant that they weren't going to fold any of them into Gnome Shell, no matter how popular they were, and that they wouldn't make any effort to avoid breaking them. If they've learned a bit of flexibility since then, that's nice, but I much prefer a DE where the devs actually care about what their users want. As an example, there's a regular poster on the Xfce forum who's a core developer; that tells me that there's at least one Xfce dev who cares about what the users think and is willing to help. And, to be honest, I like the way Xfce works. If you enjoy using Gnome 3, don't let me stop you; as I've written before, Linux is all about choice.
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