Re: New mockups for shell - round 2

[Ross Smith <myxiplx googlemail com>]

In answer to Fernando's thoughts, might it be possible to have a
settings page somewhere that lets you choose the default behaviour of
the Overlay?

For programs:
- Pinned favourites only
- Most recent
- Most used

For documents:
- Pinned favourites only
- Most recent
- Most used

That lets you keep the same view, but people can tweak it a little to
what they personally want to see (and can use this to hide things if
they wish).

Ross



On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Fernando <ferkiwi gmail com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Natan Yellin <aantny gmail com> wrote:
>> The recent documents are all viewable anyway via the Places-->Recent
>> Documents menu. While it makes sense to let people delete items from the
>> list if they want, but I don't think we need to be so concerned with privacy
>> that we don't show the list at all. Recent documents are already tracked
>> _anyway_ (see ~/.recently-used and ~/.recently-used.xbel) and if people are
>> concerned about privacy then they should turn off the tracking at the source
>> and not just complain about an interface to view their tracks.
>> -Natan
>>
>
> There are a lot of things that are easily viewable in a PC, but not
> all of them are exposed so clearly.
> Perhaps I want to keep track of recent documents for sorting my search
> results accordingly but don't want to make everybody see them when I'm
> executing some other thing unrelated.
>
> Activity tracking browsers have been forced to add a "privacy mode"
> just because of that, at the very least there should be something like
> that in gnome, although I'd still prefer the recent documents to not
> be exposed so clearly to everybody when I just want to manage the
> workspaces or execute something not related in a not relate situation
> (ie: in a serious conference people don't need to know if I was
> playing supertux or listening hard rock).
>
> Btw, in case I was misunderstood, I'm meaning the recent documents
> shown at the left side pane, not the search results that pop down when
> typing in the searchbox. Although perhaps, privacy could be improved
> if the default filtering could be customized for the users who don't
> want certain tags or documents to be shown by default in the search.
>
> --
> Fernando
>
> (sorry, I think I didnt reply to the mailing list in the last message)
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