I also don't like the hotspot in the upper left (I'm always hitting it when switching Chrome tabs, and I also moved my close/min/max to the left). If I had a choice, I'd move it to the bottom-left. I tried using this extension to move it to the top-right: http://www.fpmurphy.com/gnome-shell-extensions/ (movehotcorner)
... but it doesn't quite work in Linux Mint 12, so I deactivated it. On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Allan Caeg <[email protected]> wrote: > Looping in [email protected] > > Ignore previous message. Got the wrong address > > On Wednesday, November 23, 2011, Allan Caeg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Looping in [email protected] > > > > On Wednesday, November 23, 2011, Calum Benson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi Bill, > >> > >> On 20 Nov 2011, at 19:51, Bill Wohler wrote: > >> > >>> One gentleman noted on the Debian mailing list that the current hot > spot > >>> location is annoying because whether you have a full-screen window, or > a > >>> window in the upper left-hand corner, an application's File menu or > >>> browser's back button is very close by. This is a big problem. I > >>> accidently hit the hot spot dozens of times a day as well, so his post > >>> moved me to forward his idea to you. He suggested moving the hot spot > to > >>> the lower left, which makes sense since the hot spot for the > >>> notifications in the lower right. > >> > >> This certainly sounds like an annoyance. Of course, the reason the > top-left corner was chosen is because that's where the Activities menu is, > which makes the hot corner behaviour more discoverable than it might be > otherwise. So I'm not sure how the designers would feel about simply moving > it to a different corner, but that's not to say there isn't a good solution > to be reached. > >> > >> To ensure it gets best attention, I would suggest either filing a > report against gnome-shell at bugzilla.gnome.org, or sending your > concerns to the [email protected] mailing list instead, where more of > the gnome-shell designers and developers hang out. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Calum. > >> > >> -- > >> CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. > >> mailto:[email protected] Solaris Desktop Team > >> http://blogs.oracle.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 > >> > >> Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Oracle Corp. > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> usability mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability > >> > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Allan Caeg > > User Experience Designer and Senior Product Manager > > http://allancaeg.com > > +63 918 948 2520 > > > > -- > Regards,* > * > *Allan Caeg* > User Experience Designer and Senior Product Manager > http://allancaeg.com > +63 918 948 2520 > > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > >
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