Re: [Ayatana] Should we move closer to gnome again?

[Omar B. <estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

many of these apps will use clutter, and ubuntu will not include clutter in the LTS. That is why we are still at totem 3.0 (i think) and some older versions of gnome apps.

They will after and include most of the latest.

anyway, many of those projects just started development so we need to let the dust settles and see how they progress.

they look very nice but we dont even know if they will replace or merge with existing apps... else there would be some duplication.

and we have lots of eye candy already that people are just asking for more stability. bug fixes and accessibility and customization options ! :)

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> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:19:19 +0100 
> From: christian@xxxxxxxx 
> To: ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> Subject: [Ayatana] Should we move closer to gnome again? 
>  
> I really like unity and dislike GnomeShell for different reasons. 
>  
> But Gnome plans some really cool stuff such as the recent mockups for  
> various apps.  
> http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/gnome-design-update/ 
> and  
> http://www.webupd8.org/2011/11/new-updated-gnome-application-designs.html<http://www.webupd8.org/2011/11/new-updated-gnome-application-designs.html#disqus_thread> 
> The question is shouldn't Ubuntu move as fast as possible to the latest  
> gnome version so that they can implement most of these thinks in 12.04. 
>  
> 1) Music player: 
>          - banshee needs mono, is slow and still is a gtk2 app 
>          - rhythmbox looks ugly 
>              --> help Gnome implement the music mock up and you have it 
> 2) Chat: the current look of empathy isn't really good 
> 3) Videos: currently we have a video player and banshee: banshee has a  
> library, video player not but banshee will be removed 
> 4) network senntigs look a lot better in gs than in unity (here you  
> have just to change the option in the connection indicator) 
> 5) notifications: i really like the integration of empathy in GS you  
> don't need to open a window just type something... 
>  
>   and: Online accounts is nearly useless in unity and their is no  
> calendar (although I prefer Thunderbird we need a calendar) 
>  
> But a think most important is: the farer we got from gnome the bigger  
> the differences and the harder for gnome, canoncial and app developers  
> to handle different shells 
>  
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