Bill Nottingham wrote:
Something that doesn't seem specified here is any sort of a
design style
or guide for how apps used in the Workstation should generally be built
and function. Is there intended to be that sort of standard?
Indeed, the document carefully eschews this question, which goes hand in
hand with the question of WHAT desktop environment(s) the Workstation is
supposed to include. If the goal is (and I think it should be, because
that's what users expect) a traditional desktop with a panel (containing at
least the standard items: menu button, task bar, system tray, digital
clock), a menu (popping up from the menu button in the panel), and a desktop
displaying the xdg-user-dir for DESKTOP in some place (spread over the
entire desktop or in a widget, Plasma can do either as desired), then it is
clear that gnome-shell does NOT qualify.
Kevin Kofler