Re: Couple of Suggestions

[Gustavo Noronha Silva <gns gnome org>]

On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 09:29 +1100, William Madden wrote:
> to the window I want. It would be better if alt-tilde on its own
> brought up the display and started changing windows of the current
> app.

I don't know what alt-tilde is used for, but it's an awful combination
for people who use keyboard layouts with dead-keys. Keys such as ~, ^,
", ', are all dead keys in my keyboard layout, and I need to use them
and a letter to compose words such as não, péssimo, bebê, and so on, so
key combos with them do not work well.

> 2) Windows on the current workspace

Please. I tend to use a workspace per activity - and I believe this is
where shell is (was?) going to try and lead the user. If we have an
activity-centered model, a way to overview that activity would be very
helpful - I don't care about my "social" activity, where I keep my
xchat, empathy conversations with friends, and gwibber when I'm working
on packaging gnome shell, so having a way to tell shell to focus on the
current activity would do me good ;D

The problem is I usually have lots of activities, and many applications
with _some_ windows I care about currently. Application-centered
behavior doesn't strike me as any good, because I really couldn't care
less about the pages I'm using to search for an apartment while I am
working - I just want the pages related to my current work. The problem
is, since the number of workspaces and windows is big, my alt-tab
switcher goes beyond the screen borders, and the windows are so small on
the global overview, that it is essentially useless without zooming each
window.

I think locality is very important.

Thanks for all the fish,

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Gustavo Noronha Silva <gns gnome org>
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