RE: All GNOME Shell Developers.

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 23:50 +0000, Danté Ashton wrote:
> To be perfectly honest, I agree with the car analogy.
> I suppose my main problem with it is that I do seem to be taking a step 
> back to take what I need.
> 
> Or, to use another anology. It's like keeping my drink outside the room 
> I'm in, in Gnome's history, I've always had my drink with me, but with 
> Shell, I'll have to leave it outside and come and get it when I want it.
> 
> A dock-bar like Cairo or AWN would be a way of replacing an app, but 
> what if I'd want just a normal taskbar? 


So the complaint is basically that there is no taskbar or window list?
That you have to enter the overview to switch windows.

Could this be solved with a seperate drop down window list? Or do you
really just want an always on-screen window list (i.e. a "task bar" or
dock like area).

Regards,

Thomas