On 08/30/2011 03:36 PM, John Stowers wrote:
Out of curiosity, are there any links to this? I'm curious to see
how folks actually use the new features productively.
The videos on gnome3.org might be a start, perhaps a little simple.
Anyway, speaking to *my* own workflow, slightly adapted from defaults,
an iterative merging of G2/compiz/mac/all my past computer experience.
Here's a desktop capture..normally I'd have even more windows open, but
just rebooted recently and haven't re-logged in to all of the test systems
I will eventually be using. This is my home system too...monitor at work
is a good big larger (23 inches, I think).
http://www.candelatech.com/~greearb/misc/Screenshot.png
I have several code editor windows open, some editing local java files, the
other editing files on a 32-bit build machine over nfs over the VPN. We make
a client/server app, so normal use is editing/compiling on two different
machines,
and testing on at least a third (and often multiple systems). We have a 64-bit
build machine
that I use a lot as well.
The terminals are used for ssh access to the test and build systems for testing,
looking at logs, compiling, etc. A local terminal runs our GUI and I watch it's
output for logging, exceptions, etc. I often cut and paste between terminals,
editors, etc.
IRC always in bottom left, just enough visible to see if someone has written
something
with a glance.
I don't use the Applications & Places pulldowns often, but I find them way more
useful
than the non-fallback gnome-3 thing that hides all other work on the desktop
while you
are looking at huge icons. It's enough to make me forget why I was looking
there in the
first place.
I dearly miss the G2 system monitor applet that showed network, cpu, swap load
etc.
That was a quick help in finding run-away programs eating all the cpu, or
watching
network activity to have an idea of how much our GUI was communicating with the
server.
I find the task bar vital to switching between the various terminals. I'll
rename their
title when I get too many and they get scrunched in tight. And I'll also drag
them around
so that similar things are close together. I don't reboot often...hopefully
only every month
or two at most. This isn't a laptop, and never hibernates.
I use a single work-space. I tried multiple before, but it just never worked
out for me.
On gnome-2, I could load a system from bare metal and use it with zero tweaks
to gnome,
aside from dragging a Terminal icon into the top bar, maybe adding a few
applets.
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Greear <[email protected]>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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