Re: Suggestion: Move the workspace tiles to the left side and apps to the right

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Onyeibo Oku <twohotis gmail com> wrote:

+1
I made this same suggestion months ago ... but good luck and push on.  Maybe you'll be better favoured.

It's too late to make any visual changes in the shell in this go around.  The UI freeze date has already passed so we can't really visually change anything at this point.

Secondly, no UI changes has ever happened from the mailing list.  Open up a bug, and then post your mockups there.  Bring your mockups to the design mailing list as well.  More importantly, read the design document and see if your mockups fit into their design philosophy.  These things are an iterative process and requires patience, and being receptive to critiques.

So if you want to target for 3.2 then I would start after the release.  Right now it is crunch time and gnome-shell guys are working on getting the show stopper bugs fixed, improving stability and speed.

sri

  

On 03/07/2011 07:56 AM, Sean Brady wrote:

Hello folks, another suggestion: Move the workspace tiles to the left side, and the application launcher (cant remember what we are calling that thing right now, but you know what I am talking about) to the right side, just below the search box to where the workspace tiles are now.

I think that this makes sense because many of us use the workspace tiles much more than the application launcher as we work, even more so now that we are minimizing minimize.  As it is now, there are 4 separate motions required to switch to a window in a different workspace: move to upper left hand corner, move to the right side of the screen, click the workspace, click the app.  Moving it to the left keeps all that motion to the left side.  An widget launch happens far less frequently, and is typically the terminus of your needs for that use of the overview- you have opened your app, now you would like to use it.  With a workspace switch, you are typically going to perform AT LEAST one more action in the overview mode- a widget launch, a widget selection, a search engine action, etc. 

My two cents, but I really, really think that this is a good idea and should be explored. 

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Sean Brady
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