On Sun, 2011-11-06 at 23:33 +0000, Bojan Smojver wrote: > Please, just give me the name of _one_ user that got _distracted_ by the > taskbar in Gnome (or any other OS, for that matter).
Look at the value of the « From: » header of this email for a name of such a user. > The name of one user that > was tempted to switch tasks just because the taskbar/workspace switcher was > there. One. I wasn't tempted to switch task just because the switcher was there. But certainly, I got very distracted every time something would happen in another window and that button was blinking blue on the taskbar. It surprised me every time, and I had to spend a short time (perhaps less than a second?) wondering if I should go and see what it was, and thanks to my incredibly poor focus, I needed a few seconds to get back into whatever I was doing previously. To make my point clear: each notification was costing me much more to get back into what I was doing than to notice it. Gnome 3 doesn't have those distractions and I'm incredibly grateful to the developers. In fact, most of the time I turn off notifications in the shell altogether so that I'm not distracted by uncontrollable sources. And I can focus on my work, or relax without being interrupted, and go see the message tray when I actually want to. Oh, and I don't think I am a "Joe Average" or an "Aunt Tillie": I'm a Fedora package maintainer, Python developer, a release engineer for an in-house Linux distribution at $dayjob, and I spend most of my time in a terminal. Hopefully that will clear the myth that Gnome 3 is not for power users / developers. -- Mathieu -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
