Re: Making Activities Overview less cluttered and also "power-user" friendly

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Samuel Arthur Wright Illingworth
<mazz0 mazz0 com> wrote:
> It seems to me a big problem with the Activities Overview is that it can
> easily become extremely cluttered, especially, but not just, for a "power
> user" (I'm reluctant to use that term as I'm not really sure what it means).
>  Seeing a list of running and none-running application icons, as well as a
> list of places, as well as a list of recent files, as well as a thumbnail of
> every open window on every workspace - there's just too much going on there
> for my brain to comfortably (that's the important word) be aware of.
> I think a solution to this would be to only show the
> currently relevant activities, i.e. those on the current workspace.

There is an in progress patch for part of what you're talking about:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593844

Awesome work from Maxim, it should hopefully land soon.