Re: Some feedback

[Steve Frécinaux <nudrema gmail com>]

Radu Olaru wrote:
> I did not knew exactly to who should I write, nor did I found any
> explicit email on the gnome site, so here goes. Did you noticed how are
> modern desktops evolving? They try to be as dialog-less as possible.
> Gnome is great in evey way but it has too many dialogs opening at every
> step. Copying dialog, Package Update progress dialog and so on. My
> suggestion would be to make a small applet responsable of showing every
> background task's progress and cut down every progress dialog. This way
> the whole desktop will be cleaner and less windows will pop when you
> least expect. If it's a background job, why displaying it's progress in
> a window? Let it work in the background and not bother the user.
> Eventually make it sing on to an all around progress display applet
> responsable with keeping the user informed about every background job.
> All those dialogs make the desktop feel old. You really should consider
> eliminating some of the dialogs.

Well thank you for such a great idea, but I'm working on it (background
task and progress dialog "removal") for several weeks now, as my summer
of code project ;-)