2007/10/25, Nicholas J Kreucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello All, > > I just upgraded from Ubuntu 7.04 (GNOME 2.18) to Ubuntu 7.10 (GNOME > 2.20) and have some first impressions about the new deskbar-applet. I > fell in love with this applet back in Ubuntu 6.10, and enjoyed watching > it evolve. Sadly, with the latest update, I fear my heart is now > breaking... > > ** Entry in panel mode gone! > This is extremely disappointing... Besides the fact using a hot-key to > access the search entry is totally non-obvious to the new user, > accessing the history is a full two clicks away! An extra step for an > application that is designed to make life quicker... three full clicks > to launch an application from history... same as "Applications" menu. I > really, really, really miss the entry in the panel.
The entry-in-panel view was a serious pain to maintain (and write in the first place). I am not sure what the plans are to bring it back (sebp?). The pain comes from a mix of gtk bugs and general trickiness of focus handling. ** history very hard to scan visually > The old deskbar history use to have specific icons instead of a generic > icons. It was very easy to, say, launch Pidgin by looking for that > unique purple icon in the history. And twinkle for it's yellow star. Now > it is a manual scan for the text among mostly orange icons--major strain > on the eyes. I am with you here. I don't know if this is intended or a bug. Further, the icons in the popup are the actual app icons, which is > awesome... why does the history swap them out? Even a dictionary lookup, > or a tracker search request, have nice unique icons in the search, but > the have same orange icons in the history. > > ** history seems to remove might-be duplicate commands > Similar commands seem to be collapsed into one... for example, I switch > between my bluetooth mouse and trackpoint frequently. I found it super > handy to always have both "xset m 2/1" and "xset m 4/5" in the deskbar > history. Now, I only see the last one that had been executed (which, in > this case, is totally useless). I would classify this as a regression. Have you checked if there is a bug report on this? Please help bring deskbar-applet back to it's glory days on my > desktop :) To give Sebastian credit I would like to add that he has been incredibly responsive and forthcoming meeting peoples requests. While you may not get back to complete desktop-search-zen over night, rest assure that you will get there :-) Cheers, Mikkel
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