Re: Good read from a new GNOME user

2019-05-02 Thread Jan Claeys
On Thu, 2019-05-02 at 11:26 +0200, Carmen Bianca Bakker wrote: > > 8c. GNOME Tweaks shouldn't exist. > > Slight agree, with a caveat. The thing I appreciate about GNOME is > that I don't have to go through a lot of settings to find what I'm > looking for. The mental load of using GNOME Settings

Re: Proposal: Replace all references to master/slave in GNOME modules

2019-05-02 Thread Benjamin Berg
On Wed, 2019-05-01 at 15:53 +0200, Carmen Bianca Bakker wrote: > Je mer, 2019-05-01 je 23:31 +1000, Michael Gratton skribis: > > On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 15:19, Carmen Bianca Bakker > > > > > > I did however point out that Python has replaced uses of the > > > > term > > > > "master", and we

Re: Good read from a new GNOME user

2019-05-02 Thread Florian Müllner
On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 1:27 PM Allan Day wrote: > > > 4. Unnecessary notifications (e.g., "Application is ready") > > Indeed, my feeling is that those notifications do more harm than good. > I can't see an issue for this; does anyone know of one? There are several bugs in bugzilla, but IMHO the

Re: Good read from a new GNOME user

2019-05-02 Thread Allan Day
Thanks Britt for starting this discussion, and thanks to Carmen for the useful summary. I don't agree with every point raised, but there are a lot of valid ones. I'll provide some brief comments from a design perspective. Obviously there are a lot of issues here: individual discussions should

Re: Good read from a new GNOME user

2019-05-02 Thread Andre Klapper
On Thu, 2019-05-02 at 11:01 +0200, Carmen Bianca Bakker wrote: > I'll summarise the raised points quickly here for everyone's > convenience: For the records, the user also created tasks for many topics: https://gitlab.gnome.org/groups/GNOME/-/issues?scope=all_username=uncertainquark Specific

Re: Good read from a new GNOME user

2019-05-02 Thread Calum Benson via desktop-devel-list
On 2 May 2019, at 10:26, Carmen Bianca Bakker wrote: > > Je ĵaŭ, 2019-05-02 je 11:01 +0200, Carmen Bianca Bakker skribis: > >> 5e. Bookmarking folders isn't discoverable. > > Agree. Putting this under right-click should be an easy fix. If you want to make something discoverable, putting it on

Re: Good read from a new GNOME user

2019-05-02 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Thu, 2019-05-02 at 11:26 +0200, Carmen Bianca Bakker wrote: > > 2b. No battery percentage on status bar. > > Slight agree on all, but do not know how to fix this. I implemented this: $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface show-battery-percentage true but it doesn't have a UI:

Re: Good read from a new GNOME user

2019-05-02 Thread Carmen Bianca Bakker
Having written the summary, I'll make a slight effort to give some input on the points. I hope that, like the summary, they are insightful. I'm removing the points on which I have no strong/informed opinion. Je ĵaŭ, 2019-05-02 je 11:01 +0200, Carmen Bianca Bakker skribis: > 1. The desktop does

Re: Good read from a new GNOME user

2019-05-02 Thread Carmen Bianca Bakker
Hi Britt, Thanks for posting this to the mailing list. I'll summarise the raised points quickly here for everyone's convenience: 1. The desktop does nothing. There is no functionality other than on the top bar. Specifically: There is no dash/dock. 2. The status bar does very little.