On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 22:02 +0100, David Prieto wrote: > I'm glad to know that it's due to technical reasons more than being by > design.
That is debatable - the current design calls for "global application" actions to be moved to the application menu (the panel item with application icon + name, which currently only has a single quit actions), and leave window specific actions in the window's menu bar. > Anyways, there are some questions everyone seems to have overlooked: > > - You can open Activities without using the mouse, but then > you can't do anything. Meaning, you can't use the arrow keys > to select a running window, or a workspace, or an app on the > launcher, or even use Tab to go from one section to the other. > You NEED the mouse for those. Do you plan to implement > keyboard navigation? Basic keyboard navigation in the overview has landed today - keyboard focus can be moved to a particular element with Ctrl-Alt-Tab, then its items can be navigated using the arrow keys. > - There IS keyboard navigation in the search results, after > you type a search term. But it surprised me to see that you > can only press up/down, not left/right, which makes navigation > very cumbersome. Would it be possible to implement all four > directions? Tricky - left/right movements are currently consumed by the search entry itself to move the cursor. I agree though that horizontal navigation with up/down feels rather weird. > - The Desktop seems to be empty - in fact, even right-clicking > it does nothing. Do you plan to give it some use in the > future? None that I'm aware of. Given that the deskop is hidden behind windows most of the time, I'm not sure what interaction could be that useful (apart from a shortcut to open the background settings maybe) ... Not sure how well GNOME Shell plays with The Board[0], maybe that's something to look at for people who like their deskop to be more than a pretty background ... Florian [0] http://lucasr.org/2010/07/24/introducing-the-board/ _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
