Re: Quick feedback: I love gnome-shell for task-switching

[Bob Hazard <linuxoflondon googlemail com>]

Instead of right-clicking for #1 you can also drag and drop the icon
on to the workspace to launch a new instance

I think the favourites area of the overview is supposed to replace the
panel shortcuts, you can add to favourites with dnd.

2010/1/7 nodata <lsof nodata co uk>:
> Some thoughts after testing gnome-shell-2.28.0-3.fc12 for two days.
>
> I really really like using gnome-shell for switching applications and would
> be happy to use it for just that.
>
> I made a few notes specific to the way I use gnome.
>
> 1. Make it easy to launch a new instance of an application
>
> I use lots of gnome terminals filled with tabs. One window of tabbed
> sessions for prod servers, one for test, etc. Clicking to start a terminal
> would always switch to the current terminal I had open.
> Right-clicking showed me that I could open a new instance of the
> application, but this was so much harder than the old way: clicking the
> terminal icon in the panel at the top of the screen.
>
> While writing this e-mail I decided to check if Shift+click did what I
> expected: nope. Just before sending this e-mail I tried Ctrl+click: bingo!
> Much better, but gnome-shell either needs to hint at this behaviour, or it
> needs to provide the old simple clickable icon in panel. For someone who
> religously starts and stops terminals for separate tasks (actually for
> starting applications generally) the old panel is more efficient: one click
> without anything else.
>
> 2. Could make it easier for users to test
>
> People have their common apps in their panel. Can they be imported?
> I'm not allowed to drag and drop them, the panels is gone! This would save
> the frustration of adding apps there.
>
> 3. Window behaviour
>
> I really like the way the windows are spaced apart in the app switcher view,
> and the way new virtual desktops can be added and deleted. If a specific
> desktop could be removed rather than the last, I would have no suggestions
> here, other than to let desktops be movable to change their order.
>
> 4. Probable bugs
>
> I need to be able to see the date: please use my date format at the top of
> the screen. Volume control needs to expand like under metacity.
>
> nd
>
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