Il giorno mer, 29/12/2010 alle 23.50 +0100, Giovanni Campagna ha scritto: > > But I sadly, I agree with those that think the use > patterns/work-flows > > of Gnome-Shell is not right. I really like the "control center" and > the > > lay-out under your user name. but the whole, activities, pop/zoom > thing > > click click click. just does not work. it would force you to create > > shortcuts on the desktop. just to avoid that mess, the idea of a > desktop > > environment is to help the users with their work-flow. I am not > saying > > Gnome should copy OSX or windows. but, don't go off the deep end > > different just to be different from them. when flipping around the > > shell, the constant changing and zooming started to give me a > headache. > > While being different is a marketing point, as it marks the reason for > switching to GNOME, gnome-shell is not different for the sake of beign > different, every design decision (including the most discussed ones, > and > including those still under discussion) have been made for its merits. > Moving in particular to the zooming effect exposed by the Activities > button, this has been reported many times by various users, but it is > explicitly part of the design, as the purpose of that mode is to give > an > overview (hence the technical name, "Activities Overview") of active > windows, applications, and tasks
I think that the more you use the overview the more you get used to it. I was sceptic at the beginning, but after using the shell for some time (not a lot) I really do not feel the need of a taskbar. I arrange windows on predetermined workspaces so I know where to find them, and when I need them I know exactly where they are. Specifically, I put all the necessary windows that I need for what I am doing on one workspace, hence I do not have to change it and a jump to the overview gives me a peek on the project situation. This is quick, easy, and it doesn't disrupt my flow since I move between workspaces only when I need to do something else. > (in the future, > 3.1, it will have > contacts, desktop search, zeitgeist logging, etc.). The only thing that doesn't work yet as I expect is desktop search. It is currently difficult to open a folder or a file since they can't be reached through the overview. I am relying on links to folders on the desktop now. I know that there are some plans (bugs #636891, #593580), still I think that Tracker should be included in 3.0 as a solution. I am not a developer so this is just my stupid opinion (and please do not take it as a rant, I really like the shell), however I think that having a 3.0 *without* a desktop search wouldn't be a breaking release as a 3.0 with Tracker. Are there any plans for this that I may read about? I tried searching everywhere but I couldn't find news on this. Cheers, Alessandro _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
