another week, another tarball
This is a rather unspectacular release, as most time of this week was spent on app-integration patches, and not notify-osd itself. But a new week, a new release:
ChangeLog:
- added timings-object in preparation for coming “animations and durations” work
- patch from Eitan Isaacson fixing LP: #409810
- patch from Aurélien Gateau extending text-filtering to handle newlines and some HTML-tags
August 14th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
It’s nice to see that you are working so hard on this, especially considering that gnome-shell (AFAIK) already have a notification system integrated. Since GNOME 3 is around the corner and the gnome team is starting to focus more on gnome-shell/Mutter, it would be very interesting to know where Ubuntu stands in all this, and what your (Ubuntu) plans are for the future desktop.
GNOME 3 introduces some rather radical changes and while there certainly is a lot of excitement around gnome-shell, some users are also worried that they might not be able to use their desktop the way they like to (this includes me). I understand that all this still is under heavy development and we really don’t know how it will end up, but it would be interesting to hear what your backup plan is if you deem it not stable enough and what (if anything) you will offer users who don’t end up liking gnome-shell at all. I assume that we will be hearing more about this in the coming months, but I would personally prefer that it happens sooner rather then later! If not there might be confusion (JavaScript=Java?) and until recently (I believe it has been deleted?) there was an suggestion on Ubuntu brainstorm that “gnome-shell will be the end of Ubuntu” or something to that effect. Whether or not you like thees changes, saying things like that is just not constructive and I think it can be avoided if maybe someone from the Ubuntu desktop team could do a write up on this!
I would like to know, for instance: would Ubuntu be willing to maintain metacity/gnome-panel, How much dose Ubuntu feel comfortable diverting from the GNOME defaults and how will you support open source video drivers?
Maybe this has been discussed somewhere already or this might not be the right forum to bring this up. If so I would appreciate if you could point me in the right direction!
August 16th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Your still missing examples and some other stuff in the tarball. Just take a look at the Debian or Ubuntu package and you’ll see that the diff shows files which belong into the tarball. In other news, notify-osd 0.9.15 is now in Debian, and I will update it to 0.9.17 today.