Hi all, in the latest mockups, the workspaces sidebar autohides in the right side. I'm not very convinced by autohide in general, so I made a good/bad list about this.
The good points of "always autohide" - The user is more focused on the current workspace. True, but not so different without autohide. The current windows have much more importance than the workspace thumbnails. - Single-workspace users are not bothered by the workspace concept. This could be achieved by autohiding the sidebar only when all the windows are in one workspace. - There is more space for the windows of the current workspace. This could be achieved by autohiding the workspaces sidebar (and maybe also the applications) when the shell detects that windows in the overview are too small (by some heuristics). The bad points of "always autohide" - No global overview before deciding to switch workspace. Sometimes the user knows exactly in which workspace to move before entering the overview, but sometimes he doesn't. In this last case he needs to enter the overview, hover the mouse on the sidebar (in the opposite side of the screen), and then taking a decision. No autohide makes all of this faster. - Consistency. Both the left and right sidebars talk about the whole system (not only the current workspace). So why the right sidebar is the only one to autohide? Did I forget something? Now that the grid seems officially dead, and the workspaces sidebar should inherit all its functionalities, I think that it's design gets a bit delicate.. Cheers, Massimo _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
