On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 10:17 +1100, Bojan Smojver wrote: > On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 23:06 +0000, Adam Williamson wrote: > > I'm not sure to what extent you can expect people to make this leap. > > So, what you're saying is that people understand that they can have > multiple "home screens" (which are completely not static - they in fact > all have apps of one kind or another running on them), but they could > never grok "workspaces". I find that hard to believe.
These are always called 'widgets', and not 'apps'. The two are considered quite distinct. And you vastly overstate my argument. I phrased it, intentionally, very mildly; please do not presume to put the word 'never' in my mouth. > Just look at various Android "home screen" UIs. Some of them even have > "pinch to zoom" on any home screen, where you actually get all home > screens visible at the same time and you pick one you want. In that > representation they are spaces, for all intents and purposes (they are > just not called spaces). Some phone web browsers are working the same > way as well. That ignores the point that applications are not associated with particular home screens. > So, extending this metaphor to the desktop is a no-brainer. Give users > credit - vast majority of them already to this stuff every day. The vast majority of people do not use smartphones. However, I'm not a fan of the 'vast majority' line of argument in general, so let's leave it there. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list