Re: What does gnome-shell give us?

[Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Colin Walters <walters verbum org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> Taking a step back from the excitement over shiny new things, I was
>> just wondering if somebody could give a few bullet points that explain
>> what gnome-shell gives us over our current desktop experience.  I feel
>> like there's a lot of stuff that's different or missing but I'm not
>> sure I'm understanding where it's "better".
>
> I see it as twofold:
> * A visual refresh, using animations and graphics capabilities to enable new
> UI that we couldn't do before.
> * Fixing some design problems in the old UI, a few prominent ones of which
> are:
>   - Make recent documents much more prominient
>   - Search for applications/docs
>   - Application based system

Thanks, this is the exactly the sort of thing I was looking for.  It
gives me some good context for evaluating gnome-shell.

Much appreciated,
Sandy