On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 4:34 AM, Joaquim Rocha <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 08:37 +0100, Martyn Russell wrote: >> [...] >> >> I love the shell generally though, this is really just where I think we >> could improve things. >> > > Hi, > > I second Martyn's proposals and I'd like to name a few things that at > least in my case, could be improved. > > The worst part of the shell for me is the bottom tray area (sorry if > this is not the official name for it).
The message tray. > Besides being visually ugly (with the gradient background) IMHO, the > windows' names expanding when the mouse is over the icons is > disconcerting for me. I have to be extra accurate with the trackball in > order not to miss the exact icon or it will expand the another one, > etc... This is especially terrible when I have 10 telepathy buddy icons > and have to go expanding them all when I try to find a specific buddy > this way. (Of course I can just open the contacts list but anyway, the > use case I'm talking about is also valid IMHO) > > I think that a good way to fix this is to remove the expanding thing and > to show the name on top of the icons on mouse-over (as tooltips). > Something like when rests the mouse on top of an opened app's icon in > the opened apps list on the left. I had a patch a for this a while ago. I've refiled it as bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661077 > Another thing I think could be given some thought is the notifications. > I understand how convenient it is to show them on the bottom of the > screen (it's a "clean" side and helps integrating the chat). The problem > is that I am often writing on the bottom of the screen (on a terminal or > chatting with a friend) and a notification comes up, blocking my text. > This is especially annoying when that notification is a chat window and > it gets focused, receiving the text I was writing before... > I don't know a good way to fix it but perhaps it could be given some > thought by the designers. > > > Still on the bottom area, I wish that when my status is available, > notifications would stick in a visible area. It often happens that I'm > far from the keyboard for 5 minutes, meanwhile a notification came (say > someone is trying to chat with me) but timed out and is now hidden in > the tray area. I end up answering those notifications much later when I > happen to notice them. Maybe this could be configured so when the status > is "available" and a notification comes, the tray area would be visible > constantly until one focus another area. > > > I think it'd be also useful if the opened windows' previews (when > accessing activities) showed their icons, for example on a corner of the > previews or the the left of their name. The designers are working on this one. Hylke came up with: https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/raw/master/shell/tints.png A first attempt at a patch is in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=661042 > Finally, I think that the inclusion of a "close all" option in the apps > menu (when right-clicking on the left area's icons) would be useful. I've never heard that before, but yeah, that may be useful. File a bug please? > Thanks, > > -- > Joaquim Rocha > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > -- Jasper _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
