Re: A dock

[Sébastien D. <se8 and gmail com>]

To give you a background : I'm a web developer, using Gentoo. I was
using KDE 4, but I give Gnome 3.14 a shot and I liked what I saw :
"kiss", no configuration needed, I can actually focus on my work, not
on my workspace. But I still struggle to switch between apps. Maybe
I'm not an average user, as I need a lot of context switching
(browser <-> text editor <-> console). But I still think this area of
Gnome could be improved. On other desktops, I can do this on
"autopilot mode", but it's not so easy with Gnome (more clicks/key
presses/"brain power" needed).

The dock may not be the perfect solution, but it's more of a global
feedback I wanted to share about that.

:-)

Thanks,
Sébastien

On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Yosef Or Boczko <yoseforb gnome org> wrote:
> בתאריך ש', אפר 4, 2015 בשעה 11:35 PM, alex diavatis
> <alexis diavatis gmail com> כתב:
> > Hello Sri, Yosef Or Boczko
> >
> > > Right, so perception is not really accurate is it? :-)
> > Nop, it's not accurate, but you don't need precision at this point :)
> >
> > > Btw, gnome-sofware not cover some distro, like ArchLinux,
> > Ofc, and not only that, GNOME cannot be "measured" in any way if
> > won't release "something downloadable, installable, usable as one".
>
>
> Hmm, yeah, I have something like 8 DE installed, but I used GNOME only…
>
> Regards,
> Yosef Or Boczko
>
>
> > - alex
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 11:25 PM, Yosef Or Boczko <yoseforb gnome org>
> > wrote:
> > > Hey Alex,
> > >
> > > I don't know if this is what emmanuele said, it just look
> > > like he said thas you can't know anything about GNOME's users scope.
> > >
> > > Btw, gnome-sofware not cover some distro, like ArchLinux, so it far
> > > from accurate.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Yosef Or Boczko
> > >
> > >
> > > בתאריך ש', אפר 4, 2015 בשעה 11:21 PM, alex diavatis
> > > <alexis diavatis gmail com> כתב:
> > >
> > > > Hello Emmanuele,
> > > >
> > > > How you can see metrics when GNOME hasn't a metric system? :/
> > > > You can only see that by "perception" :)
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 11:17 PM, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > Hi;
> > > > >
> > > > > On 4 April 2015 at 20:37, alex diavatis <alexis diavatis gmail com>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > > While I think we can discuss whether the presence of a dock could
> > > > > > > ensure gaining users, I also don't think GNOME needs to "win back"
> > > > > > > users in the first place.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > What that's supposed to mean? GNOME doesn't need to get users back?
> > > > >
> > > > > I'd object to the point of getting "users back" until I see a metric
> > > > > that gives me the number of a) Linux users and b) GNOME users before
> > > > > and after any imaginary point in time (usually people that say "get
> > > > > users back" use the 3.0 release, missing the larger point of "when
> > > > > Ubuntu switched to Unity" one), but I'll just say: getting users back
> > > > > from what? Why do we need to convert the small pool of Linux users,
> > > > > when a larger pool of non-Linux users exists to be tapped?
> > > > >
> > > > > In any case, my main issue was the argument that a dock is not going
> > > > > to be a point of contention when a person decides whether or not to
> > > > > use GNOME.
> > > > >
> > > > > Ciao,
> > > > >  Emmanuele.
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > https://www.bassi.io
> > > > > [ ] ebassi [ gmail com]
>
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