Re: What does gnome-shell give us?

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 18:56 +0000, Colin Walters wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>
> wrote:
>         On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 18:37 +0000, Colin Walters wrote:
>         
>         >
>         > * Actual design for how workspaces behave (We didn't really
>         have this
>         > in any consistent way, but now is an opportunity to fix it
>         right, e.g.
>         > make moving an application to a workspace a persistent
>         operation, etc.
>         > Actually a lot of cool things are enabled when we have an
>         application
>         > based system)
>         
>         
>         Please excuse my ignorance here.  Are you saying that an
>         application
>         as a whole (i.e. all of its windows) exists on only one
>         workspace?
>         Like the very broken way workspaces behave on OS X?
> 
> 
> Well...I don't want to dive into design, more note that the
> possibility exists to improve things given that we have two
> fundamental improvements in having application tracking, and fixing
> the split between UI and WM.

All right, I'm not trying to troll here.  But I'm working very
hard on revamping the user experience in Yelp to keep it more
focused on the content you're looking at.  Yelp would be very
broken if it were constrained to a single workspace.  In fact,
Yelp windows should generally feel more like utility windows
than a part of the Yelp application.

It's important to me to know design points like this.  I've
seen precious little communication about this sort of stuff.
I see whizbang screencasts from time to time, but I haven't
really seen real dialog about the user experience that we're
trying to create, especially with respect to how it impacts
the rest of the desktop.

--
Shaun