Re: What does gnome-shell give us?

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:


> 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.

Quite possibly, yelp is simply not an application in this design, but
just a part of the system that provides help.