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Reading through the design document... Am I to understand that there is no way to see at a glance (ie with no interaction from the user) what applications are currently running? Also that the only way to switch applications is the overlay or Alt-Tab? I really hope that isn't the case. Why not take the idea on pages 22 and 23 and put that in the lower left? How about NO names for the favorites/open applications in the overlay, aside from maybe mouseover? > Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:17:39 -0400 > Subject: Re: Thoughts on Currently Open Applications > From: walters verbum org > To: merkinman hotmail com > CC: gnome-shell-list gnome org > > On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Mark Curtis<merkinman hotmail com> wrote: > > Let me first apologize for the initial message, I have no idea why it showed > > up as blank > > > > As of right now, there is no bottom bar illustrating what applications are > > open, is this planning on changing? > > Not in the design, no. The functionality will be in a combination of > the overview and the notification area. > > > What is the point of the application name to the right of "Activities"? > > It isn't clickable to show the other open applications, > > It will act as an application menu, and likely also offer switching > between windows in that application, plus the application will be able > to customize it. > > See the design PDF: > http://www.gnome.org/~mccann/shell/design/GNOME_Shell-20090705.pdf > > >I heard it was used > > to illustrate what window is active instead of relying on window decoration. > > However this argument falls apart when there are 2 or more windows open of a > > given application. > > It's to illustrate what *application* is active and provide a point of > control as above. The window decoration shows you which window is > active. > > > Why are the names listed in the open/favorite applications in the overlay? > > There is such a small amount of room for the name, nearly every applications > > name gets truncated. Also, the name obscures the the dots that show how > > many windows are open. > > Truncated names are something we are addressing in a few ways. First > we're working to fix the .desktop files to have smaller names. I have > some work on having a better expansion of the name on mouseover. > > That's not the end of the story; we may have to do different things in > locales with much longer names, or perhaps adjust the design to use > more of the space by default. Get free photo software from Windows Live Click here. |