Why not reusing more GNOME components?

[Stefan Sperling]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 12:43:39PM +0200, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
> I imagine it would require some modifications to the Xfce panel. But it
> would be a good alternative for users that liked GNOME 2 and don't like
> gnome-shell (like me, as you can guess ;).
 
Sounds to me like you're really looking at a problem that GNOME is having,
rather than a problem that XFCE is having ;)

I think the non-mono culture in desktops (or any FOSS software, for that
matter) is very much worth retaining.