On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 17:12 +0100, Dimitris M. wrote: > >> 1. No minimize button (I can't even mention the number of times I have > >> cursed you for this, so far...). > > > > Minimizing is pretty much an obsolete notion. > Software exist to serve the users' needs. I need minimizing. Adding a minimize button would go against the whole design since the windows don't have a place to go when they are minimized. It's more like making windows disappear. > I believe the number of people that need minimizing vastly outnumber those > who don't. > >> 2. Switching between widows is PAINFUL. The options I have is: move > >> mouse to top-left or press the window key. > > > > Alt-tab / Alt-tick > > Window management should not require keyboard. That's your personal opinion. I agree with you that we should have options but I was told on this list that the project avoids adding options which would result in additional code paths. Disappointing for some people, I know. > > >> Then when the "window" view opens, and after its effects are finished, > >> I cannot immediatly find the window I am looking for. Why? Because of > >> the effects. Colors fade, windows thumbs pop and resize and rearange. > > > > The effects are instant for me. > The effects are pretty fast on my machine too. However they still blow my > focus. > In general moving things are intrusive. Here is my list of intrusiveness, > from worst > to less bad: > > 1. Rearranging stuff. I map the relative position of each open window in my > desktop > even when they are overlapped. The rearranging effect completely destroys > that. > > 2. Moving stuff (slides, scales, etc.) > > 3. Fades in and out. > >> the one I am looking for. Also the virtual desktops bar at the right, I > >> have to move my mouse on top of it to see it all! Very annoying, too > >> many mouse moving around. > > > > Ctrl-Alt-Up/Down
> Window management should not require keyboard. > >> What I would like (suggest). > >> Having to go to "activities" to manage my windows is a disaster. Window > >> management should be "always on"! That means the dock and the virtual > >> desktop bar should be visible by default on my plain old desktop. > > > > Noooooooo! I hope we never ever go back to that. > > > > Workspaces with many windows are much easier to manage in Shell, and movig > > windows between workspaces is much more integrated; so I actually use > > workspaces more. > Have you asked the rest of the world? > > >> That would leave the "activities" only with one view, the > >> "applications" and think about it. It makes sense and maps much better > >> to the Gnome 2 design. > > > > Gnome 2 is dead, long live Gnome 3! As a very skeptical Gnome 2 user I am > > totally sold on Gnome 3. It is different, but different better; but u have > > to adapt your workflow. > > I really tried to yet it is still painful. As I said, software shouldn't be > painful, should be intuitive. _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
