Zeitgeist rocking GNOME Shell

By Seif Lotfy, Published December 4, 2010

I took more time today to play with GNOME Shell…

Now this is just a dirty, dirty, dirty hack, I will look into cleaning up by the next week (I have some other things I need to take care of)

So the current proposal looks like this (it is being updated since the whole layout changed)

My hacks are not complete yet thus I am missing some categories. But it should be a small modification (too lazy now after a 10 hours session of JS)

Again this is working code.. I will be committing a patch over the weekend for the shell devs to know what I am actually doing with Zeitgeist. But a good clean code has to wait a bit, but sometime around Christmas I should have the first clean patch. Right now I am just too tired.

AGAIN THIS IS CODE NOT MOCKUPS.


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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FJMJ4E23JCX5E7RUVE2YKRYYXE max

    this is starting to look really good (not pretty-wise, functional-wise ;))

    • Anonymous

      Wat’s wrong with the prettiness???

      • http://twitter.com/cranil Anil C R

        I think he meant not just pretty…

  • Anonymous

    OMG!

    the more i see the screenshots, the more i want to join the dark side (or the shell side) XD

  • Anonymous

    Am I the only one who’s WAY more excited for Gnome-shell than Unity?

    • Anonymous

      Agreed. I had the latest running for the past three days when the Relayout branch work landed. It’s wonderfully intuitive. Sadly, I tried to build it again right when they were doing something really important with releasing the gnome-3.0 core packages into jhbuild, so currently my installation is broken.

      I can’t wait to be able to build it again and use it. What’s really being underplayed are the little usability ideas, too. Eventually, there will be a functional app menu in the logo-button-text thing on the top bar for the currently running application. And then there’s the chat notifications, and the fact that you can have a conversation inside said notifications as they’re happening. This was a stroke of genius.

    • http://www.facebook.com/colton.rodie Colton Rodie

      I agree with you. Gnome-Shell looks WAY more promising than unity.

      • Anonymous

        They look more alike every passing day…

    • Anonymous

      Don’t worry bro I m also like u… shell looks more interesting then Unity rite now… :)

    • http://twitter.com/cranil Anil C R

      same here! it seemed like a piece of sh*t some time back when I tried it

    • Anonymous

      As soon as they ditch mutter i might be. As is it is a slow piece of crap.

      Looks great in screenshots though.

  • Anonymous

    this is really cool, is there a ppa for this?

  • http://twitter.com/mordalo Mordalo

    I said it before, but I’m looking forward to GUbuntu…and this is gonna make that release even sweeter.

    • http://dylanmccall.blogspot.com/ dylan-m

      A nice thing with the whole Gnome Shell vs. Unity thing is the two fill the same part of the desktop in very nice, self-contained ways. It should be pretty painless to select either one from GDM, perhaps with some hacks to remove redundant stuff that runs at login.

      I think I will be switching back and forth obsessively, since they are both good in their own little ways.
      (Though I do think the Gnome folks are making a significantly better choice by not doing the global menu thing. Hopefully Unity will figure that out by the LTS).

      • http://twitter.com/TiberiusMonkey Benjamin Falkner

        I agree, some people seem to be getting rather fanboy-ish over this Gnome vs Unity thing and I’ve not seen any reason why I can’t have both on the same machine.

  • Anonymous

    @zookalicious: No you arent the only one, I am super excited about it too.

  • http://twitter.com/herrilujah Herr

    ah, forget unity, Gnome rocks

  • http://twitter.com/cranil Anil C R

    any idea if mutter works well with ATI’s proprietary drivers?

    • Anonymous

      At least on my machine, Shell has been pretty much unusable with fglrx. Insanely slow and lots of graphical artifacts.

      • Anonymous

        same here ! with ati 10.11 driver ! hd 5770 1gb ram . :-(

  • http://twitter.com/cranil Anil C R

    any idea if mutter works well with ATI’s proprietary drivers?

  • Anonymous

    I hated the first images !
    now I love it, very good job !!

  • http://mirek2.mp/ Mirek2

    Things to like about GNOME Shell:
    - hot corner
    - overview
    - looks great
    Things to like about Unity:
    - more sensical panel organization
    - Compiz
    - Dash

    Gaaah

  • http://twitter.com/stewieX One Geek To Another

    I wish Canonical and the GNOME foundation would just combine efforts on Unity and Gnome-Shell. I like elements of both builds. It would be similar to the merger of Moblin and Maemo which resulted in the pretty rocking love child we now know as Meego.

  • http://twitter.com/thoeger Thøger Juul Thorsen

    Yep it looks to me, too, like Gnome Shell is better than Unity, but I wonder what it would have been like without Unity blowing some radically different ideas out there.
    Maybe there is a good point in having them develop each their thing independently and then steal whatever good ideas they have from each other.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HME4MZNMMYQRNHSHJ23E67QRVA James Caton

    I think it looks decent, I will have to try both before I make and decisions about unity or Gnome 3, I tried Gnome-Shell before and found it fairly decent it just needed to use a different back end then mutter as it was slow, but it could have just been cause of early development.

    When I tried to run games on it they were certainly hindered performance wise natively or with wine. What have others experiences been with gaming? One really odd thing I found was with Gnome-Shell and steam, it would tile steam over the desktop then if it was minimized it wouldn’t open up again.

  • http://twitter.com/zc456 Zenon Tigerpaw

    Gah! Unity and Gnome 3 both look so good.

  • Anonymous

    It’d be nice if you could explain what you did instead of those who are slightly out of the loop and only have static screenshots to look at.

 
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