On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 08:27 +1100, Bojan Smojver wrote: > Workspaces may have been unusual in the days of complete Windows > domination (during which time everybody had to suffer the cluttered, all > windows of top of each other UI). Not any more.
I'm not sure to what extent you can expect people to make this leap. Phones work very differently to computers and people use them for very different things, however much we might want to look at them as becoming increasingly less distinct when we're thinking about the hardware and the coding. I think it's significant that I've *never* seen anyone in the phone world, that I can recall, refer to 'workspaces'. The typical language is 'home screens'. Inherent in this language is that these are a quite different thing from the 'space' (quasi-physical or mental) where you use applications (or 'apps'). I think probably using iPhone / Android builds up a two-level mental model where you're either casually interacting with multiple widgets and launchers on your multiple home screens, or 'using an app' (which you may have launched from any of your multiple home screens). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list