It is worthy to note that only GNOME Shell have this _[] removals by
default, I can't see it elsewhere in any major OSes. So a "Welcome to
GNOME Shell < New Features > < Tour Guide >" startup window with a
simple documentation will help users from other environments. I believe
this could be also done by distributions or by GNOME Shell doc team itself.
Configuring the dconf just to show it back again is relevant only to the
maintainers of Linux/*nix distributions, but I think it is of little
value to _end_ users.
On Tuesday, 15 March, 2011 11:35 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Marshall Neill
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 03/14/2011 10:37 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 09:46 -0500, William Jon McCann wrote:
Hey,
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Florian
Müllner<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 14:00 +0000, [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
2) Don't you guys surf the net for porn!!!!????
C'monnnn. Do you know
how hard it is now to hide a webpage quickly when
somebody walks into
the room!!!!???? Don't deny it. You guys watch
porn too ;)
now you ruined everything. haha :)
Uhm - so basically you post to a public mailing list
that you'd like to
keep your porn-browsing habits private?
Well at least he or she didn't describe the type of porn.
Sounds like a good case for a porn workspace. When
someone walks up
behind you at work, zip it up and switch workspaces.
Another option
is to use the keyboard shortcuts if that's where your
hands are
(doubtful). You may even want to configure a special
keybinding if
getting caught in the act is a common part of your workflow.
Otherwise you can use the overview to switch away. Your
porn-space
is mostly hidden off the right side of the screen in the
overview.
But let's try to use work-safe examples here in the future
please.
Can't resist continuing this one. As we're talking about
hiding porn
'webpages' we are apparently in a web browser. If you're
trying to keep
your porn browsing private you probably want to be doing it in
Private
Browsing Mode, which - in Firefox, anyway - has a keyboard
shortcut:
shift-ctrl-P. It's even, very conveniently, a shortcut you can
manage
with one hand, if you use the right-hand side ctrl and shift
keys. That
makes it nice and easy to get rid of your porn session with no
minimizing required - just whack the keyboard shortcut to quit
private
browsing mode and you're right back in your convincingly
work-related
browser session.
I'M JUST SAYIN, IS ALL
(of course, if you're on a work network, you can rely on the
fact that
your friendly office BOFH has your outgoing HTTP requests
logged. Please
refer to said BOFH for the fee schedule for keeping said logs
private...)
I have been watching this list for some time now and I have come
to a conclusion, perhaps a bad one, but one nonetheless, you have
taken away functionality. The whole gnome shell thing is
woirkspace driven. As I said before, you guys might use
workspaces, but from what I have seen in the years and years of
dealing with computers, not used all that often. Now if you use
workspaces, great, but forcing others to adopt that mentality, not
so sure. No minimize, maximize, why? You have just removed
functionality and I believe minimize was removed because there
isn't any taskbar. Minimize caused the window to basically
disappear and you couldn't find it. Well if you pressed the
Super key or moused over to the Activities you would find it.
More work. Taskbar, there is one, so to speak, but basically a
space stealer. Has a calendar, woohoo, and the activities plus
system tray. Boy that will cause everyone to drop KDE, XFCE,etc
and just stampede over to the new Gnome Shell. Yeah right. Now I
know I am gonna get nailed bigtime for this e-mail, but I feel it
needed to be said. All I have seen, for the mostpart, is praise.
No real criticisms.
I always thought the basic premise for an upgrade or new features
was productivity. I don't see a lot of that in the new shell.
More mouse moving/clicking, etc.
The functionality is not being removed.. it's not just visible. You
can still get to it via right click on the title bar or the keyboard
shortcut. Why not try it that way instead of just bashing it? If you
don't like it you can always set the key in dconf to put it back.
The thing about computers is that work models change constantly. How
people interact with their computers change.. today a lot of people
are using cell phones and the way they interact on that is in fact
workspace based. The way they work with tablets is workspace based.
I strongly suspect that the smart phone use models is going to affect
the UI desktop computing. I see this as getting ahead of the curve.
(or perhaps we've always been there.. I've been using workspaces since
1993)
Maybe you don't agree with the direction and that's understandable,
change isn't always easy to manage especially if you're happy with the
status quo. GNOME has always been about "just works" and pushing the
desktop out of your consciousness so that you can concentrate on the
tasks you're working on effectively. "Distraction free computing" as
is described in the http://www.gnome3.org/ website. Perhaps this
iteration may not the best for you, but please continue to monitor
subsequent iterations and try them out. Keep an open mind is all we
ask. Perhaps you'll appreciate some of the changes?
sri
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