Re: [Tails-dev] Tail 2.2 Ugly as HELL

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Aihe: Re: [Tails-dev] Tail 2.2 Ugly as HELL
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> freedom-mail@???:
>> There is any chance of Tails OS see other version that looks like the 1.6?
>> The 2.2 version is UGLY AS HELL.
>
> I agree :)
>
> We switched to GNOME Shell in Classic mode (with the grey menus) because
> we wanted to continue providing the top-left Applications and Places
> menus and the bottom windows list. But this can be achieve equally in
> GNOME Shell without the Classic mode by enabling these extensions.
>
> The thing is that changing the appearance of the desktop implies
> updating many things in our automated test suite which is based on
> screenshots of the desktop. So I understand that our test suite
> engineers are not really happy to do additional work just for aesthetic
> (not that aesthetic is not important but they are overloaded already).


If the automated test suite's images is the only "blocker", I think we
could do the switch. Feel free to prepare a branch, and we'll see.

Are you sure there would be no other changes? IIRC pure GNOME Shell deal
with switching between applications (think: alt+tab) in a "novel" way.

Cheers!