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

[Bob Hazard <linuxoflondon googlemail com>]

I just reread what you meant by #2, if you had a custom launcher on
the panel have a look in the folder .gnome2/panel2.d/default/launchers
for now

2010/1/7 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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