Re: Module semi-proposal: gnome-shell

["Jason D. Clinton" <me jasonclinton com>]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Jamie McCracken <jamie mccrack googlemail com> wrote:

JS, whilst a good glue language, is nevertheless problematic in this it
appears impotent (no native dbus support nor subclassing). I would only
recommend it for scripting that does not need dbus. Currently a lot of
code needs to be written in C to make up for these shortfalls in
Gnome-Shell so I dont think its a particular good choice. I dont however
see it as a blocker to gnome-shell acceptance

Regarding DBUS, there was a session about that and I blogged about it[1]. DBUS bindings will move in to in Glib/GIO, and by extension, br accessible via GObject Introspection, and thus any language--including _javascript_--will have first-class DBUS support for free. So the language is completely orthogonal to DBUS this-or-that. But we're straying from the point of this thread.

I would much rather see a discussion about the experience we would like our users to have when GNOME 3.0 comes out and how Shell will get us there.

[1] http://jasondclinton.livejournal.com/76020.html