Re: Application Switcher

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 05:27 +0100, Felipe Erias Morandeira wrote:
> Samuel Arthur Wright Illingworth wrote:
> > Personally, I'm against the focus on Applications. To me it's not
> > about the tool I'm using, it's about what I'm doing with it. That's
> > why the windows I'm using for my current activity are on the current
> > workspace and other windows of the same applications are on other
> > workspaces, for different activities.
> 
> Again, I fully agree. The Shell is focused in activities, yet
> functionality for advanced users is focused in applications? That
> doesn't make much sense to me.
> 
> The whole point of the Shell is to get users to distribute their
> applications and documents across different workspaces that map the
> different activities that they are carrying on. The user interface
> should be consistent with this idea.

That is not the whole point of GNOME Shell, or even a point of GNOME
Shell currently. If you want to distribute your activities (applications
and documents) across workspaces, then that's fine, but we're just as
happy if you have them all together.

- Owen