Re: Gnome-Shell - questions and opinions

[Nex6 <borg borg1911 com>]

On 12/30/2010 01:46 AM, Giovanni Campagna wrote:
> Il giorno gio, 30/12/2010 alle 12.20 +1100, Bojan Smojver ha scritto:
> > On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 12:16 +1100, Bojan Smojver wrote:
> > > Just one comment here
> > Ah, one more thing. I noticed that my pidgin and krb5-auth-dialog icons
> > have gone to the bottom right corner for some reason. Shouldn't we group
> > things in one place so that users don't have to travel to two different
> > locations? After all, network manager, volume etc. are all in the top
> > right location already.
> No, this is explicitly part of the design. If you look closely at the
> top left, you'll notice that volume, bluetooth, universal access and
> power are different from network and keyboard. In fact they are native
> shell indicators, using native popup menus instead of Gtk ones.
>
> It is expected that all indicators in the top left will be replaced by
> native ones, given due time (network is very complex because it has a
> lot of features, while keyboard is missing an usable library to access
> settings), but of course this means that only system related indicators
> will survive, everything else has been moved bottom down.
>
> Furthermore, it is expected that overtime status icons and systray icons
> (in the sense of GtkStatusIcon and the freedesktop systray
> specificiation) will be replaced by persistent libnotify notifications,
> giving finally a consistent and clean experience.
>
> For more (and official) information, look at
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Guidelines/SystemStatus

I understand getting to a cleaner framework, and i support it. but the 
paradigm
shift in the UI for usage is flawed as I said in another post.


> Giovanni
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