Hi all. While testing gnome-shell, my 4 year old daughter suddenly asked me why I am zooming in and out all the time and I had to admit that's exactly what I asked myself, too.
After a while using the shell, I have noticed that the zoom effects started to annoy me. As the only advantage of zooming is multiple desktop switching, the next logical question was: do I really need this feature (at least in such a form as implemented in the shell). I have never used multiple desktops at all, as I do not like to switch desktops while working with a set of different applications. As my workflow is very individual, there also is no logical grouping of windows on multiple desktops. On other (quite) popular OSes (like Windows or Mac OS), multiple desktops or spaces are either not available or not extensively used. I would personally prefer the activities to appear as a transparent sidebar on the desktop and to add a classic desktop switcher to the panel (I know there are Linux ppl out there working with that feature ;)) Besides that I still think a taskbar for application switching is necessary, at least populated with icons (as described in the interapplication communication thread) Best Regards Marcus _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
