Re: All GNOME Shell Developers.

[Samuel Arthur Wright Illingworth <mazz0 mazz0 com>]

I was assuming that in the final version there'd be a notification area in the taskbar like in the old panel, which would hold your little icons for thigns like email and currently playing tune, etc, am I wrong?  If there is going to be, could I recommend adopting that Ubuntu's notifier applet?  It's very handy having one little icon for all your notifications.

2009/12/19 Danté Ashton <mentalomega googlemail com>

I would ask all of you to conduct a simple experiment with GNOME Shell; take your preferred music player, have it play a bit of music, then go and start writing a document or email. As soon as your music player starts playing a peice of music you really don't want to listen to right now, see how quickly it can be changed.

With the GNOME-Shell I've tried...that really hasn't been a pleasant experience, it takes me 6 seconds at least to go through the shell and change it, making that task highly disruptive to my work flow.

Or try dealing with getting to Thunderbird once it's notified you of new mail. :/

On 19/12/09 00:04, Samuel Arthur Wright Illingworth wrote:

I find it advantageous having a list of currently open apps/docs, not just because it makes switching between apps easier but it also helps me keep track in my head of what I've got going on in the current workspace, and thus what I'm in the middle of doing.  Good for productivity, that.

I think the main complains are the lack of that, and the added complexity and time to launch an app using only the mouse.

2009/12/18 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

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