Re: Gnome-Shell - questions and opinions

[Giovanni Campagna <scampa giovanni gmail com>]

Il giorno gio, 30/12/2010 alle 12.16 +1100, Bojan Smojver ha scritto:
> On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 23:50 +0100, Giovanni Campagna wrote:
> > Current (2.91.4 / git master) gnome-shell experience is very different
> > from the Fedora 14 packaged one (2.31.5).
> 
> Just one comment here regarding switching workspaces using mouse only.
> Consider:
> 
> 1. Travel to top left corner.
> 2. Travel all the way to the middle bottom.
> 3. Pick workspace you want.
> 4. Click on the window you want.

This is currently being addressed in the design, working code will come
with time.

> Here is a suggestion:
> 
> In overview mode, just under Activities button, above favourites bar and
> to the left of Applications/Windows menu, there is enough space for a
> scaled down, pan enabled workspace (one workspace high) grid, showing
> all window positions the way they are. It would really help with quick
> workspace switching if we had it there.

I assume from your later mail that you already have seen the latest
mockups in gnome-shell-design. So why do you think that the workspace
grid on the top left is better than the vertical one on the right?

> 
> PS. If number of workspaces is too large to fit in this scaled down
> grid, we can show left/right arrow on the vertical edges of this grid,
> which would pan the grid on mouseover. Writing workspace number as
> watermark on each of the workspaces would also be helpful.
> 

If we pan, we lose the point of the workspace grid, which is seeing all
workspaces at the same time.

Giovanni