Re: Gnome-Shell - questions and opinions

2011-01-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 08:50 +1100, Bojan Smojver wrote: For expose, I'm sorry that you don't like, but before we remove the feature or make it optional, we need to understand why you feel it is wrong. The problem with expose is that it moves your windows around and resizes them, many

Re: Gnome-Shell - questions and opinions

2011-01-03 Thread Filip Štědronský
Dne 3.1.2011 12:21:54 napsal Adam Williamson: No, I have no data, but I rather suspect a lot of users don't actually open enough windows at once - and, particularly, enough *small* windows which you can sensibly arrange in non-overlapping fashion on a typical monitor - to benefit from

Re: Gnome-Shell - questions and opinions

2011-01-03 Thread Nex6
On 1/1/2011 6:55 AM, Giovanni Campagna wrote: Il giorno ven, 31/12/2010 alle 01.42 -0800, Nex6 ha scritto: On 12/29/2010 02:50 PM, Giovanni Campagna wrote: Il giorno mer, 29/12/2010 alle 14.17 -0800, Nex6 ha scritto: hi all, Current (2.91.4 / git master) gnome-shell experience is very

Re: Gnome-Shell - questions and opinions

2011-01-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Bojan Smojver bo...@rexursive.com wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 15:37 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote: What make you think that we are exclusively focused on workspaces? Our expectation is really that a lot of users will never use them. More people are aware of

Re: Gnome-Shell - questions and opinions

2011-01-03 Thread Bojan Smojver
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 17:38 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote: There are going to be improvements for switching between workspaces (see http://jimmac.musichall.cz/log/), but current plans are to keep things a two-level thing - switch workspaces than switch windows. If I understand things correctly (and

Re: Gnome-Shell - questions and opinions

2011-01-03 Thread Owen Taylor
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 09:46 +1100, Bojan Smojver wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 17:38 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote: There are going to be improvements for switching between workspaces (see http://jimmac.musichall.cz/log/), but current plans are to keep things a two-level thing - switch workspaces

Re: Gnome-Shell - questions and opinions

2011-01-03 Thread Bojan Smojver
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 17:52 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote: When you go to the overview in Git master, you see all the windows of the current workspace spread out before you and no windows of other workspaces. Which is a problem in itself. No visibility. You can switch workspaces: - by

Re: Gnome-Shell - questions and opinions

2011-01-03 Thread Bojan Smojver
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 23:06 +, 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

Re: Gnome-Shell - questions and opinions

2011-01-03 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Bojan Smojver bo...@rexursive.com wrote: So, extending this metaphor to the desktop is a no-brainer. Give users credit - vast majority of them already to this stuff every day. I was sitting in a restaurant and overheard two middle aged women somewhere in

Re: Gnome-Shell - questions and opinions

2011-01-03 Thread Allan E. Registos
The basic function of workspaces in the current design is to represent separate tasks with the expectation; Having no time to skim through the design documents, knowing that a workspace is dedicated to a specific task is great. Please make it better. I am expecting that I can save all my

Re: Gnome-Shell - questions and opinions

2011-01-03 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 10:17 +1100, Bojan Smojver wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 23:06 +, 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

Re: Gnome-Shell - questions and opinions

2011-01-03 Thread Bojan Smojver
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 02:17 +, Adam Williamson wrote: The vast majority of people do not use smartphones. Seriously? Come on, kids in primary school have iPod Touch and even iPhones these days. -- Bojan ___ gnome-shell-list mailing list

Re: Gnome-Shell - questions and opinions

2011-01-03 Thread Bojan Smojver
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 06:13 +0100, Onyeibo Oku wrote: That does not represent a vast majority. Don't limit the word 'people' to one geographical location. It is estimated that by 2013 about 1.1 billion smartphones will be sold. If that's not majority enough for you, then I don't know what