Re: interapplication communication

[Reiner Jung <reiner jung uni-oldenburg de>]

Hi Johannes,

I guess these discussions can become somewhat cumbersome for developers,
because they are largely on the same topics. I think it would be helpful
to distill a set of use-cases and a set of solutions for these use cases
on the basis of gnome-shell.

There is a document discussing the features of gnome-shell:
http://www.gnome.org/~mccann/shell/design/GNOME_Shell-20091114.pdf

It is maintained by William Jon McCann <william jon mccann gmail com> and
Jeremy Perry <jeremy perry redhat com>.

I suggest that we collect ideas on this list for problems we have
determined and send them our proposals. But to get features into the
shell we should not only propose them, but try to convince the
developers to like them (so they implement them).

Kind regards
   Reiner



Johannes Schmid wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I think you can/could even configure such a bottom panel in gnome-shell
> but it's kind of annoying because it takes up lot's of screen space.
>
> I am currently using gnome-shell on my netbook and it is really cool to
> have no second panel. Anyway, the top panel is mostly empty and that's
> annoying. I was proposing a task list like Ubuntu Netbook Remix is
> offering with icons only for the inactive application and the
> application name for the active.
>
> Anyway, I have the strange feeling that this list is more a discussion
> between users than between users and developers which is a bit sad. I
> would be really great if the core developers (Owen, Marina, etc.) would
> join this discussion more often especially in the way if and how they
> think some kind of task list could be useful. It seems that lots of
> people are really proposing it.
>
> Regards,
> Johannes
>
> Am Samstag, den 26.12.2009, 18:47 +0100 schrieb Marcus Moeller:
>   
>> Hi all.
>>
>>     
>>> I like the concept of gnome-shell if it comes to single apps, but I
>>> wonder if it's a good solution if you work with multiple different
>>> apps. E.g. if you want to drag and drop files between two nautilus
>>> windows, you can choose between resizing both windows, placing them
>>> side by side or using Alt+Tab to toggle between them.
>>>
>>> I know, one of the main arguments is that the application itself
>>> should offer things like tabbed browsing, but what about interprocess
>>> communication between totally different apps?
>>>       
>> To line out what I would prefer I have attached a screenshot. (Did not
>> managed to get the color of the bottom panel matching :))
>>
>> Best Regards
>> Marcus
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