Re: Breadcrumbs in the panel

[Sander Dijkhuis <sander dijkhuis gmail com>]

On June 4, Milan wrote in the Window Trays thread:
> BTW, are there any news about Sander's breadcrumbs? Is it something
> that's going to be kept?

I think it isn't likely to become part of the default desktop, but it could be
made available as a third-party plugin.

After talking with Owen and Jon I agree it isn't obviously an improvement and
might not fit well into gnome-shell's design. For example, it's very focused
on the workspace / window hierarchy, while the Activities overview makes this
concept apprehensible and usable more effectively in a really different way.
Also, for 'most' users, who won't need more than one workspace, displaying
'Workspace 1' doesn't make sense.

In fact, the breadcrumbs don't really show any information the user doesn't
already know about. The space in the top panel could be used more efficiently,
for example by mentioning attention-requesting windows. Putting the _ [] X
buttons of maximized windows in there might also still be worth experimenting
with.

For window switching, Jeremy's latest mockups seem likely to provide a clear
and better integrated mechanism. It would be interesting to see how that works
out, in combination with alt-tab for faster switching.