[Suggestion] Replace Applications menu ext. with Gno-menu

[Ali/amjjawad]

Hi all,

On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 7:31 PM, Tim <darkxst at fastmail.fm> wrote:

> We have avoided shipping additional extensions (apart from the official
> ones in gnome-shell-extensions) for a number of reasons:
>
> - We aim to ship a vanilla gnome experience, and really most extensions
> become user preference, they are for the most part a niche, and if not
> (and everyone on the planet really wants a particular extension), then it
> should be proposed for inclusion into core gnome-shell.
> - Extensions break with most new releases and many lack proper
> maintenance, they can be slow to be fixed, and are a nightmare to package,
> for
> the most part there is not even proper versioning on the releases..
> - Many extensions ultimately get abandoned when the original author gets
> bored with them and never picked up by others.
>
> Based on the above, I am against even having any extra extensions
> available in the archives, i'm certainly not going to install them by
> default.
>

Ditto and big +1 :)



> For what its worth we had all sorts of breakage when we uploaded
> gnome-shell 3.16 to wily, caused by the dozen or so extensions that synced
> from
> debian.
>

I'd add to that, I'm all into stable system rather than trying to please
everyone which is a key/way to failure.


>
> It seems to me that it would be best to just have a page on the new
> website that highlights a bunch of the more popular extensions, people can
> then go to e.g.o and install the ones they like.
>

Very good idea, or someone could send the proposed text here and we can add
that to our Wiki as well.


>
> Tim
>
>
> On 02/08/15 18:49, Patrik Bubák wrote:
> > Umm... you know there's list view, right?
> >
> > On Sun, 2015-08-02 at 10:45 +0200, Narcis Garcia wrote:
> >> Applications names seem to appear cut!
> >>
> >>
> >> El 02/08/15 a les 10:13, Patrik Bubák ha escrit:
> >> > This is the first time I have tried the Gno-menu extension in LTS, not
> >> > sure how many more functions it has with newer versions, but I would
> >> > really love to see this included by default instead of the poor
> >> > Applications menu that has not much to offer compared to Gno-menu.
> >> >
> >> > https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/608/gnomenu/
> >> > --
> >> > *Patrik Bubák*
> >> > Ubuntu GNOME Artwork team <https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugnome-artwork
> <https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntugnome-artwork>>
> >> > |  Behance.net <http://behance.net/inoki>
> >> >
> >> > Sent using Evolution <https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution/>
> >> >
> >> > Nothing ruins creativity like too many voices weighing in. We call it
> >> > the /Ice Cream Principle/. Tell 10 people to go get ice cream with one
> >> > condition: they all have to agree on one flavour. That flavour is
> going
> >> > to be chocolate or vanilla every time. Groups of people don't agree on
> >> > what's cool or interesting, they agree on what's easy to agree on.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >
> > --
> > Sent using Evolution <https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution/> from
> Ubuntu <http://ubuntu.com/desktop>
> >
> > Nothing ruins creativity like too many voices weighing in. We call it
> the /Ice Cream Principle/. Tell 10 people to go get ice cream with one
> > condition: they all have to agree on one flavour. That flavour is going
> to be chocolate or vanilla every time. Groups of people don't agree on
> > what's cool or interesting, they agree on what's easy to agree on.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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