Re: New mockups for shell - round 2

[Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan club fr>]

Le vendredi 22 mai 2009 à 15:30 -0400, Owen Taylor a écrit :
> So, we were going over the mockups some more in detail yesterday;
> hopefully we'll get started on some implementation soon. One of the
> things we were discussing was Jon's concern that there really wasn't a
> good connection between the search entry and the search results.
While I'm slightly more in favor of your latest proposal, one important
advantage of putting the search entry in the top panel is that you could
click in it, type your keyword and hit Enter, and you'd be directly
driven to the results in the overlay. Else, you'd need to hit the
Activities button before that. And a search entry efficient like that
could be later extended to act as GNOME Do. Not sure that's really
essential though - and Alt+F2 could act the same.

OTOH, putting the entry there would prevent us to include the
breadcrumbs idea from Sander. So we may decide on it before making the
choice.

An idea that just occurred to me: the search as in the mockups is a more
exhaustive one, and may take some time (in seconds). Maybe we could
still perform the search with the items on the left (recent apps and
docs, places, devices) at the same time: I've found this feature really
efficient, notably when you have too much recent docs for the basic
display. So what we could do is: search-as-you-type for the left pane,
and search-on-activate for the one on the right - this way you don't
need to wake up Tracker every time.