Re: What does gnome-shell give us?

[Martin Olsson <mnemo minimum se>]

Colin Walters wrote:
> * Fixing some design problems in the old UI, a few prominent ones of which
> are:
>   - Make recent documents much more prominient
>   - Search for applications/docs
>   - Application based system

When I close a TAB / document in some GNOME app like gedit or whatever
I would like to be able to press SHIFT-CTRL-T to similar to undo that
"close" operation (just like how you can re-open closed TABs in a browser).
This seems like pretty easy (just a lot of work to do it for many GNOME apps
to get it consistent).

Similarly in a more global fashion, if I have eog running with some photos
and close that app, then I want to be able to easily restore that app again.
I've not tried the new GNOME shell yet but it seems that you're approaching
this by putting more emphasis on "recently opened docs".

Another thing I sometimes wish GNOME had is, that I want all my background
tasks managed in a central easy-to-overview place; i.e. downloading files,
unpacking files, transcoding video, synchronizing with some device/PDA,
installing updates, checking/downloading e-mails etc. Today a lot of apps
have these big progress bar just as if I sort of wanted to sit there and
look at the app and wait for it to finish. Sure, I want progress data but
I'm definitely going to do something else while I'm waiting put please make
it easy to "minimize the progress bar" into some place.


		Martin