Instead of right-clicking for #1 you can also drag and drop the icon on to the workspace to launch a new instance
I think the favourites area of the overview is supposed to replace the panel shortcuts, you can add to favourites with dnd. 2010/1/7 nodata <[email protected]>: > Some thoughts after testing gnome-shell-2.28.0-3.fc12 for two days. > > I really really like using gnome-shell for switching applications and would > be happy to use it for just that. > > I made a few notes specific to the way I use gnome. > > 1. Make it easy to launch a new instance of an application > > I use lots of gnome terminals filled with tabs. One window of tabbed > sessions for prod servers, one for test, etc. Clicking to start a terminal > would always switch to the current terminal I had open. > Right-clicking showed me that I could open a new instance of the > application, but this was so much harder than the old way: clicking the > terminal icon in the panel at the top of the screen. > > While writing this e-mail I decided to check if Shift+click did what I > expected: nope. Just before sending this e-mail I tried Ctrl+click: bingo! > Much better, but gnome-shell either needs to hint at this behaviour, or it > needs to provide the old simple clickable icon in panel. For someone who > religously starts and stops terminals for separate tasks (actually for > starting applications generally) the old panel is more efficient: one click > without anything else. > > 2. Could make it easier for users to test > > People have their common apps in their panel. Can they be imported? > I'm not allowed to drag and drop them, the panels is gone! This would save > the frustration of adding apps there. > > 3. Window behaviour > > I really like the way the windows are spaced apart in the app switcher view, > and the way new virtual desktops can be added and deleted. If a specific > desktop could be removed rather than the last, I would have no suggestions > here, other than to let desktops be movable to change their order. > > 4. Probable bugs > > I need to be able to see the date: please use my date format at the top of > the screen. Volume control needs to expand like under metacity. > > nd > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
