Re: A few toughts

[William Jon McCann <william jon mccann gmail com>]

Hi,

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Maciej Piechotka <uzytkownik2 gmail com> wrote:
> I started using gnome-shell and I noticed several things:
>
> 1. There should be bookmarks in Places IMHO. Is it a missing feature and
> I should fill a bug or is is deliberate choice?

To be honest we aren't totally sure where we are going with the places
section - or the recent docs either.  We have had some ideas about
using this area to integrate more nautilus desktop folder type
functionality.  See the nautilus thread on this list.

> 2. When I create new workspace and open new window (either by
> right-click on application or opening new application) it is opened on
> old workspace. Is it wanted behaviour? Since presumably user created new
> workspace for this application.

Makes sense I guess.  What do other people think?  I'm personally not
a heavy workspace user anymore.

> 3. Is lack of configuration of clock wanted behaviour? I miss seconds
> and 24h clock I was used to but I belive changing timezone is rather
> needed for traveling people.

I think we probably should have something in the control center to
help with this.  I wrote a patch a long time ago to add a clock prefs.
 Maybe we should revisit that.

> 4. I'm not sure if it is possible w/out change to GTK+ and applications
> but I belive that I should be transfered to main window rather then last
> window if application have it. So in epiphany I should be transferred to
> roster instead of chat and in evolution to mailbox instead of compose
> mail.

This might be something we can look at for enhancing the "application
mode" of mutter.  Another case is when you close the compose window in
evolution you should get back to the main evolution window.

> 5. It seems that it's a bit harder if I have several windows opened of
> the same application (like using IRC in empathy) on the same desktop. I
> understend that there will be integration with empathy so most of the
> problem will not be applicable but I find it difficult when I had:
> - Opened documentation of tikz package (PDF in Evince)
> - Opened set of exercises for next week (PDF in Evince - autogenerated
> name)
> - My LaTeX document
> - My solutions (yes - PDF in Evince ;) )
> Sometimes I needed to check only one thing (final form etc.) and the
> animation of minimizing was rather distracting. Also it was rather hard
> to find document I wanted (both in activities sidebar as on the
> minimized workspace).
>

The window previews in alt tab may help a bit here.  We have also
considered adding an alt+` or something that will allow you to change
windows within an app.

Thanks for the feedback.

Jon