On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:58 AM, G. Michael Carter <[email protected]>wrote:
> I see this "Distraction free computing" come up about gnome 3. Watching a > movie and you need to bring an application, having all applications > disappear and show up as thumbnails on a separate screen seems very > distracting to me. I have two montiors and one of my monitors goes blank > (well with background) to bring up the activities screen. I'd find it > "less" distracting if I could bring up applications via a short key without > disrubting all the things I'm working on/monitoring or watching. If > anything leave the second monitor alone. > > There is some work on multi monitors, it hasn't landed yet.. but will soon. I don't know what the behavior entails but I believe it is on live.gnome.org. > But that's just me... I've been using docky to work around this > distraction. Much nicer to just have a little bar that appears at the > bottom with your applications than taking over your entire desktop. Of > course the fact it can take up to 15 seconds or longer to bring up the > activities menu doesn't help. But it only happens on my Xeon quad cores > oddly enough. Graphics and the Dell T100 and 840 just don't seem to get > along. All other computers I have it's 1-2 seconds. > I use gnome-do, and I no longer use docky. It isn't necessary anymore.. Performance is an issue but that will resolve with maturity. I use gnome-do primarily because as a sysadmin it's easier for me to pull up ssh shells rapidly when I need to. sri
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