Re: Suggestion: Make a dock from application icons in overview

["Allan E. Registos" <allan registos smpc steniel com ph>]

+1 to this idea, less mouse gesture, I don't have to go to activities, just a quick mouse hover to the left edge of the screen. 

In addition if there is an accidental mouse hover to the left, the slide-in effect must be quick enough to avoid distraction while working on a task.

Besides, for those people with various virtual machines running with GNOME Shell,

the mouse cannot be recaptured by the shell when the VM is running in full-screen mode, unlike in KDE 4.

I hope this can be addressed also.

Great work for the current build! I think the shell is also ready for touch-screen devices. It is now my default WM.

Cheers,

Allan Registos

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From: appi2012 gmail com
To: "Stefano Facchini" <stefano facchini gmail com>
Cc: "Shell-List" <gnome-shell-list gnome org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 1, 2010 11:01:52 AM
Subject: Re: Suggestion: Make a dock from application icons in overview

+1

This is exactly what I suggested in a very recent discussion about minimizing windows in gnome-shell.

This is a extremely simple change that adds the much needed* taskbar to gnome shell.

*See my post in "Minimizing Windows violates mental model" for details.

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Stefano Facchini <stefano facchini gmail com> wrote:

Hi,
maybe this is an already known idea, but it could be possible to make a
dock with the list of application icons on the left side of overview
mode. When the mouse touches the left edge of the screen, the list of
icons slides in, just like a taskbar, without activating the exposé for
windows. I'd really like to see something similar in gnome-shell!

What do you think?



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