I Agree with all yours words. Its a really minority that are happy.
For a long time, the interface decisions for Gnome2 was all welcomed. The Control-Panel, for example, evolve for better. Now without hearing users, changes was made. Mock-ups and hearing is really a good way to make decisions.! Job 2011/6/19 Dimitris M. <[email protected]> > Hi, > > My opinions on Gnome Shell: > > Window management is atrocious (see below). > > 1. No minimize button (I can't even mention the number of times I have > cursed you for this, so far...). > > 2. Switching between widows is PAINFUL. The options I have is: move mouse > to top-left or press the window key. > > 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. All these > are too distracting and completely destroy my focus. I have to stare for a > little while at each window thumbnail to decide if it is 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. > > On the other hand the "applications" view is good. However I would > apppreciate smaller icons so I can fit more per row. Maybe you could put > zoom in and out handles at the bottom? > > 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. Also > when windows overlap them they should pop up when moving the mouse to the > left or right screen edge. This is similar to the current top-left edge but > with much less mouse moving. At any case I would like to NOT have any kind > of resizing, rearanging of my windows when the dock becomes active. In > practise I am suggesting to have the "window" view functionality as the > default desktop! > > 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. > > Dimitris > > _______________________________________________ > 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
