Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

[David Woodhouse]

On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 02:23 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> David: on the subject of your followup...my advice, by the way, is that
> life is too short to continue to try to explain why GNOME Shell is
> unusable for folks like you and I. I'd just switch to XFCE and be done
> with it. My machines are a lot happier for having made the switch :)

I'm not really interested in explaining why GNOME Shell is unusable.
It's not about explanations anyway; they *want* it to be unusable¹.

Besides, I'm content enough with GNOME Shell as long as we have
gnome-shell-frippery. My only issue right now is that it's not packaged
in a Fedora repository, so I don't have the expectation that it'll be
kept up to date and in sync with Fedora's gnome-shell, and that it'll be
updated when I connect to a decent wired network and run 'yum update'.

That is the subject of this thread; I'm not interested in the
meta-discussion, which is why I was so short in response to the
"upstream wants..." interjection.

-- 
dwmw2

¹ Unusable for me. As measured objectively by me actually trying to use it.