Is this something that will eventually find its way back to the control panel like it was in gnome 2.x?
These things were easy to configure before, and I agree that being able to easily change these settings is important to help users feel more comfortable... That said, after a few days of working exclusively in Gnome 3, I can say I don't miss those buttons anymore... it just looked strange and took a few hours to get used to... All in all, the new way of dealing with windows and workspaces is fairly intuitive and drastically efficient... On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 09:16 +0800, Allan E. Registos wrote: > 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]> 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]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 14:00 +0000, > > [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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnome-shell-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > > -- > There must be a computer language that is 100% visual, but runs at the speed > of the C language. > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
