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There is a large and thriving ecosystem of GNOME extensions that add or remove various UI elements, change their appearance or behavior in all kinds of ways, in
by kccqzy 1y ago
There is a large and thriving ecosystem of GNOME extensions that add or remove various UI elements, change their appearance or behavior in all kinds of ways, including a tiling window manager. Many Linux distributions simply shipped extensions for GNOME 3 to make things look like GNOME 2. I personally never liked the traditional desktop metaphor anyways and enjoyed customizing my desktop with different extensions.
You won't get this landscape of diversity and customization if you just iterated on GNOME 2.
- streptomycin 1y agoWith a broad enough definition of "iterate" you could have. Regardless, 99% of users don't want to customize their desktop environment so the defaults are really important.
- StopDisinfo910 1y agoWith a broad definition of iterate, Gnome 3 is itself an iteration of Gnome 2.
- codewiz 1y agoIn my past experience, too many extensions tend to break every time GNOME Shell is upgraded and it can take a long time to get them fixed. The GNOME developers have signaled over and over again that they're unwilling to provide stable APIs for UI customization. Being a developer myself, I can see why it's a burden, but the current situation is that it's being done anyway through unofficial extensions and users are left to deal with the random breakage.
- pjmlp 1y agoNot only we had them, they were written in native languages, not performance hogs running on top of gjs. Signed, former contributor to Gktmm during the GNOME 1.0 days.