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Small and well-defined feature requests can be very useful, but unfortunately too many are neither small nor well-defined. Try to improve on that by adding another README section that explains that changes need design approval, and points to appropriate places to have broader design discussions, hopefully without being too off-putting. While this is unlikely to stop all "bad" feature requests, it at least gives us something to point to when closing requests. Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/3122>
GNOME Shell
GNOME Shell provides core user interface functions for the GNOME desktop, like switching to windows and launching applications. GNOME Shell takes advantage of the capabilities of modern graphics hardware and introduces innovative user interface concepts to provide a visually attractive and easy to use experience.
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Supported versions
Upstream gnome-shell only supports the most recent stable release series, the previous stable release series, and the current development release series. Any older stable release series are no longer supported, although they may still receive backported security updates in long-term support distributions. Such support is up to the distributions, though.
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Feature requests
gnome-shell is a core compoment of the GNOME desktop experience. As such, any changes in behavior or appearance only happen in accordance with the GNOME design team.
For major changes, it is best to start a discussion on discourse and reach out on the #gnome-design matrix room, and only involve the issue tracker once agreement has been reached.
In particular mockups must be approved by the design team to be considered for implementation.
For enhancements that are limited in scope and well-defined, it is acceptable to directly open a feature request.
When in doubt, it is better to ask before opening an issue.
Contributing
To contribute, open merge requests at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell.
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License
GNOME Shell is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. See the COPYING file for details.