On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 11:54 +0100, Aaron Sowry wrote: > I think most of > the criticism about the launcher behaviour is unjustified.
+1 > For example, the three applications you mention (Nautilus, Terminal, Firefox) > all support tabs. Surely this should reduce the need to ever open separate > windows for these applications anyway? No, I don't believe it reduces the need. I put them in separate workstations. And drag between them [horrible in a tabbed situation]. But I also don't accept that there is any issue with launching new windows. In nautilus I also have the option of Open -> New Window [in the application itself]. Same is true with firefox and terminal. > Also, it should be pretty obvious whether the application is already running > or > not, just by looking at the icon in the dashboard. It doesn't matter whether > the > application is on your current desktop or not, you can always see if it's > running. It's then fairly trivial to decide whether you want to click or > ctrl-click. Or just ctrl-click anyway. > The advantage of being able to switch to a running application without having > to > know which desktop it's on surely outweighs the need to think about whether > you > want to start a new instance or not. Is it really so common that one wants to > have two running instances of the same application anyway? Yes, it is common. But then you Ctrl-click if you know you want a new window. > Some things that do bug me, however: > - Nautilus should be better integrated into the desktop - IMHO, if it needs > its > own launcher in the dashboard, then it's not accessible enough. Right now it > seems like its own separate application rather than a core component of the > desktop environment. I sort of agree. Although the "Documents" app does appear in the launched by default [at least on openSUSE]. _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
