On 25/10/2007, Sebastian Pölsterl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----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.
Then I suggest the button-ui. The entriac is just a nightmare - but you know I've whined about that focus stuff dozens of times :-) > ** 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. As I also noted in the bug report, the "bug" then might be that the actions does not have the right icons. Cheers, Mikkel
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