Re: Launching an application requires too many mouse clicks in Gnome 3

[Xavier Cho <fender_rules yahoo co kr>]

Seems awesome! It's definately an improvement over the current way of
adding dock bar shortcuts. And it looks great too :)

Still I like to navigate through application categories without moving
my mouse from corner to corner or click multiple times to find the right
application.

Maybe we need all of them to improve user experience - an unified and
easy way to browse application categories to be used in both the program
menu and the dock bar. It better have such pagination and transition
features as well as easy mouse hover category drill down option for
desktop users.

2011-09-04 (일), 13:09 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre:
> Have you seen "Killing Mode Switch"[0]? It wasn't implemented in 3.2
> because of time constraints, but it's planned.
> 
> http://jimmac.musichall.cz/log/?p=1181
> 
> On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Xavier Cho <fender_rules yahoo co kr> wrote:
> > Ok, I can admit the overview mode is somewhat more user friendly than
> > alt-f2. But still, demanding users to use their keyboard to perform such
> > basic task as launching an application is not the way to achieve user
> > friendliness.
> >
> > To be more precise, I suppose all those methods of launching
> > applications serve different purpose :
> >
> > 1) alt-f2 : enable advanced users to execute some command or launch an
> > application quickly.
> >
> > 2) dockbar : enable users to access their most frequently used
> > applications.
> >
> > 3) overview mode : enable users to search for an application with
> > keywords.
> >
> > 4) program menu : enable users to browse through all the available
> > applications by categories.
> >
> > You cannot replace one method with another, rather they are designed to
> > complement other methods to enhance user experience.
> >
> > My point was, the current implementation of 4) requires its users
> > unnecessarily cumbersome interactions with their mouse, which could be
> > fixed by some simple design modifications.
> >
> >
> > 2011-09-04 (일), 19:38 +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak):
> >> On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Xavier Cho <fender_rules yahoo co kr> wrote:
> >> > In that case, we can just remove the application menu altogether and let
> >> > them alt-f2 type commands to launch applications.
> >>
> >>   Thats not the same thing at all. In case of alt-f2, user has to know
> >> the exact and complete name of the application. Where as in overview
> >> mode, she/he just
> >> types a few letters of either the name of the command or the generic
> >> name. For example, typing 'mus' in the overview-mode brings-up
> >> rhythmbox as the only option.
> >>
> >
> >
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