-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen schrieb: > 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. > I'm thinking about bringing one of the old UIs back. However, I made no decision which one will it be, yet.
> ** 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. > See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476976 for a explanation. > 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? > This bug is already fixed. It's already part of 2.20.1. - -- Greetings, Sebastian Pölsterl -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHIJao1ygZeJ3lLIcRAsbeAJ9yKp6uuHvsviHppsiF7zTuXFBYGwCeN8tO Y2bI6GItZHZPgSjbPZmGRc0= =hFI0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ deskbar-applet-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/deskbar-applet-list
