On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Gendre Sebastien <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello everybody and happy new year. > > Recently I have seen and tested the new Gnome Shell. > > Woaw, it's very better than the old. O_o Really good job. It fixes many > problems from the old. I also rediscover somes good features. I > specially like the idea to separate system notifications (on the top > right) and applications notifications (on the buttom). > That is great to hear! > > A little question: Is it planned to can move the time indocator from the > middle to the right on settings? Because now, a little and single black > bar on the top with system notification on right and time on the middle > reminder the iPad Shell. :( > I'm not sure.. I believe that is the final location of the time indicator but that can change if data doesn't support it. In any case, I suggest you file a bug in bugzilla as a feature request. > > The new gnome-ghell is amazing but, however, the old Gnome-Shell was > better to manage workspaces. The new it's better if you have only-one > workspace or if you stay on one workspace, but if you want to manage > some workspaces, move window from one workspace to another or have an > overall view of all your winodows and workspace the old Gnome-Shell was > better. > This is already changing. It hasn't been merged yet. You can go here: http://jimmac.musichall.cz/log/ to read up about it. > > For this, I have a little idea: In the "windows" section, in the new > Gnome-Shell[1], we can have 2 zoom levels. On the level 0 we see all > windows opened on the current workspace like now and on the level 1 we > see all warkspaces and all windows opened on each workspeace like on the > old Gnome-Shell. If you are on level 0 and have many workspaces, you can > switch to workspace what you want, like now, but can't create or delete > workspace. For this, you must to go to the level 1 and now you can > create or delete workspace and decide if you organise they like a line > or like a square. What do you think? > Seems a lot of work to create and delete workspaces don't you think? Design for a Gnome shell generally involves reducing the number of clicks in doing a task. Moving from 2 clicks (or actions) to three involves a lot more mental work. I realy think Gnome Shell must have a solution to switch quickly between > windows with mouse or finger like a simply list of windows. > Please look at Jimmac's blog, I think you'll be pleased with what he has come up with. > We can't make a mix with the notifiactions system (the notifications > system on the bottom, not on the top)? Add a simple lsit of windows on > the bottom? > Alan Day has written up a page on some of the design principles behind gnome-shell, I think it will answer some of your questions. I know the notifications area located bottom is described there: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design > After 5 minutes of the test, I don't see a "Shortcuts" section like in > old Gnome-Shell or in Gnome-Panels. It was killed or it's planned to add > this on a section (like for windows and applications)? > I can't honestly answer that one. Someone else will have to chime in on that. I don't use it much under shell. Please add yourself to this bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636891 The proper term is "places", not "shortcuts". Shortcuts is not specific since we don't know if you mean keyboard shortcuts or something else. > > To finish this mail, I dont understand the logic to put system settings > and system shutdow behind the user name (on the right of the top panel). > I think this user name must manage only what is relevant to the user, > like the "presence" (available, away, etc), change user, deconnect user, > etc and system (settings, shutdown and info) need his own button. (icon > and/or text (The Gnome logo?)). > It does indeed do that. Everything relevant to the "user experience" is under your name including changing settings. I don't see why presence couldn't be added there. Perhaps you could put in a bugzilla enhancement request? > > What do you think? > > This is just some personal thinking and not an attack to the project, so > don't ignor it. > If you're met with dead silence it is usually means that the question has been answered before and been re-hashed. Please look here as a start: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell There is a FAQ and other information there that I think will help you. Also look through the mailing list archives whichi can be found at: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/ sri
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