Re: Interface Changes

[Ryan Peters <sloshy45 sbcglobal net>]

On 12/14/2009 02:51 AM, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 01:18 -0500, Mark Curtis wrote:
>    
> > The car could be the whole GNOME Shell, the stations the applications.
> > If you're driving a quick flick of the dial/push of button and you can
> > easy change applications
> >
> > In GNOME Shell you have to use the overlay, which zooms you out,
> > rearrages windows into smaller thumbnails (arguably distracting the
> > eye) so you can click/drag and app and have everything reshuffle
> > again.
> >
> > It's as if you are driving and the controls for the radio are outside,
> > you have to get out, change the station then reorient yourself.
> >      
> I prefer a different analogy:
> It's like having to leave the house to add a piece of furniture to a
> room (and all the existing furniture happens to move around to fit some
> kind of table structure if you do so) ;)
>
> The GNOME Shell might shine when it comes to working with many windows
> on several workspaces, but I think it feels heavy when it comes to just
> opening this app or that document. Having launchers on the panel might
> alleviate half the problem for some users (launchers on the desktop less
> so, because they can be covered by windows). Otherwise ... my mind
> wanders back to plain old menus.
>
>
>    
Hello everyone! I'm new to this mailing list. I'm just an ordinary user, 
so I can't help much with some things, but I'd be glad to provide my 
opinions.

I agree with your analogy, Thorsten. Besides being a little slow, this 
is the main thing I can't stand about gnome-shell. If we were in the 
kitchen, and wanted to put some furniture in there, it should just 
appear (wouldn't that be nice in real life? ;) ). Launchers on the panel 
would be nice, but that would mean it'd have to be as configurable as 
the previous panel (if not more). I love my customized panel as it does 
so many things and just the way I want it to, and "upgrading" to a 
less-functional panel doesn't seem right... And this is on top of the 
fact that in the panel, it tells me what window I have focused but 
clicking it disappointingly doesn't do a thing :\ (I'm running Ubuntu 
9.10's pre-built package; I'm probably outdated with my argument, sorry).