Are there any plans to palliate the interface shift on the transition from Unity to GNOME Shell?

[Aryan Ameri]

On 14/4/17 11:13, Carlos Solís wrote:
> As it is well known already, the interface of GNOME Shell is very
> different from the one in most other desktop environments, and even
> earlier versions of GNOME itself.

[..]
> Hoping this mail is the beginning of a healthy discussion,
>

I'm going to ignore your implicit overly negative bias of Gnome Shell's
default window behaviour, as you do raise some very valid points about
user expectations.

First of all, I don't think this really is Ubuntu GNOME's decision to
make. Ubuntu GNOME has always been for GNOME fans, those who actually
like GNOME Shell's window behaviour and want a distro which bundles an
up to date version of GNOME as close to upstream as possible, on an
Ubuntu base. And I very much hope that whatever Ubuntu decides to do
with their interface, that Ubuntu GNOME continues this tradition.

What Canonical will decide to do with Ubuntu is of course up to them. I
guess they could adopt an approach similar to RedHat, where Fedora
bundles a "vanilla" modern version of GNOME that's basically the same as
upstream, RHEL 7 adopted GNOME Classic as its default, which acts and
behaves a lot more like GNOME 2.

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Desktop_Migration_and_Administration_Guide/what-is-gnome-classic.html

Canonical might similarly decide to adopt GNOME Classic, or they might
write some new GNOME Shell extensions that make Shell look and behave
more like Unity. I very much hope that they either adopt GNOME Shell
unmodified, or adopt GNOME Classic, so as to avoid further fragmentation
and confusion with all the online tutorials and guidelines that new
users might come across.

If Ubuntu decides to adopt an unmodified upstream version of GNOME, with
no extra extensions or GTK patches and whatnot, then we probably have to
wonder whether Ubuntu GNOME warrants being created. However, I very much
think that such a scenario is unlikely, and that Ubuntu will make
modifications to GNOME, just like they used to before 2011.


Cheers
-- 
Aryan Ameri