On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Dylan McCall <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/8/10, Mark Curtis <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I don't under... why the name of the appli... is listed at all. Pretty much >> every appli... name gets trunc... in the overv.... If the curre... setup >> can't fit the name of the major... of the progr... even on a defau.... GNOME >> install, then maybe somet... is wrong with the design >> > > That sums it up for me. What bothers me here is that the overlay has > the entire screen - at least 1200 pixels wide - but all these little > widgets are trying their hardest to be as small as possible. Here the > application browser - The Reason why people click the Activities > button - squeezes into less space than an iPhone's home screen. The > remaining seven eights of the screen do nothing.
Except that the main focus of the Activities button is not application / places / documents, is the workspace overview, which in fact takes up as much space as possible. This said, I agree with you that most applications have their names truncated and can be recognized only because you remember them and their icons: would it be enough to add a tooltip showing the full application name (Name + GenericName)? > The design may be more interesting if there aren't a hundred apps to > switch between (one reason why iPhone's works), but that needs some > well defined philosophy changes first. What do you propose? The menu, again? Or the list like recent docs (which works for even less apps)? Giovanni _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
