Il giorno mer, 12/05/2010 alle 17.04 +0200, Kao Chen ha scritto: > We have create a new design page in the GnomeShell Playground to > promote this idea. > I hope it will be more clear to understand. > > The link is here: > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/DesignerPlayground/MultiDesktop > > Thanks for the support
I've seen your page and I must admit I like it. Just I think the "Desktop" is not the right concept here. In fact, the desktop metaphor, while being very familiar to users, has some limits: - like wooden desktops, it tends to become a mess; - it requires you to minimize the current windows (something we should avoid given the difficulty to restore a window). In addition, the GNOME 2 desktop implementation has some more "flaws" (as I see them): - it mixes volumes (USB, SD), network shares, standard icons (Computer, Trash) with real existing files - being a Freedesktop, it uses $XDG_DESKTOP_DIR (and assumes there is one such directory) Therefore I think that projects should be moved to a separate ~/Projects directory, and that an extension be made to Shell to add either a Plasma-like widget to the background, clearly distinguished from the remaining ~/Desktop, or something like the proposed Task Pooper, overlaying windows from the bottom. Also, I think that instead of fixed directories like ~/Projects/Work and ~/Projects/Home, we should add tags in each directory, using a .project file, or extending current .directory syntax. In particular we should avoid dot-files whenever possible, as GtkFileChooser showes them randomly. Giovanni > 2010/5/8 Virgil Brummond <[email protected]> > Kao Chen, the idea about projects seems great. Just have an > activity and > drop it, though I think it might be better if you drop it > twice to just > move all the currently open ones to the workspace in question, > and not > open another copy of them. What do you think? > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
