Intent to package GNOME Shell frippery

[seth vidal]

On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 02:23 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:

> So, just so I understand, the requirement/assumption is that all
> machines will be online and pulling bits down directly from GNOME? That
> won't map at all to enterprise or non-fully connected environments. It
> needs to be possible to install/provision a system with this kind of
> functionality because users are going to want to get these extensions.
> 
> 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 :)

+1. There are also some very nice dock-programs available which make
xfce even more easy to use.

definitely recommended rather than tilting at windmills with gnome3.

-sv