Draft Product Description for Fedora Workstation

[Bastien Nocera]

Emacs is more than 30 years old, gnome-shell is nearing 3 years since its first stable release. When gnome-shell is this mature, I'm sure the extensions breaking will be less of a problem :)

----- Original Message -----
> On 11/04/2013 12:32 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
> > On 04.11.2013 12:18, Florian Müllner wrote:
> 
> >> So what do you suggest? We can either
> >>
> >> (1) restrict the functionality extension can provide (e.g. "add an icon
> >> with a menu to the top bar" - of course that'd mean no alternate-tab,
> >> shell-shape, alternative-status-menu etc.)
> >>
> >> (2) cease development of gnome-shell
> >>
> >> (1) will cause an understandable outrage as it would mean the end for a
> >> large percentage of extensions, and (2) is not an option.
> 
> > Just see how others does this. Linux Kernel is one example, Django is
> > another. This two projects from very different corners are able to
> > provide stable API/ABI for some longer time period.
> 
> Emacs is probably a better example: It's extensible from within the
> running process and shows that it is possible to provide quite a bit of
> backwards compatibility in a GUI application without halting new
> development.  It uses a dynamically-typed extension language, just like
> GNOME Shell.
> 
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