Gnome-shell - some usability problems I found

[Maciej Piechotka <uzytkownik2 gmail com>]

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First of all I'd like to say that I'm not usability specialist (I'm not
event 'normal' user - I'm closer to power user). However after some time
of using the gnome-shell (from about GNOME 2.27.x)  I noted a few
problems - and they are more the minor problems (I believe) in design
rather that 'bugs' so I decided to post it here.

I know that GNOME 3.0 is near but I guess it should be somewhere
addressed (possibly in GNOME 3.2)

- - Application-based navigation in gnome-shell may be nice idea but in
some cases it has no high usability. If someone have more than one
document it can be hard to navigate - all I have is white boxes with
some text.

The fade-out provides little clue where should I find an application.
There *are* names and I can use recent items but there are some problems
with this approach:

  1. It does not work for terminals as they are not documents.
  2. Recent items can get spammed by some applications - for example
seeing 160 photos from camera destroys the whole list

Anyway the problem is not that it is not impossible. The problem is that
it is harder.

- - Working with workspace is harder. When I had gnome-panel I had about 8
workspaces constantly opened and I had 1:1 relationship between tasks
and workspaces. Now I use one workspace.

The problem is the change from 'array' approach to 'linked list'
approach. Also I cannot rearrange them or insert workspace in the
middle.

I also cannot rearrange freely the workspaces. I had the set up where
all programming tasks was next to each other etc.



I understand that gnome-shell is probably targeted at users who are not
necessary familiar with computers. However after some time of using
gnome-shell I find it *less* task-based and harder to use using my work
flow.

Regards
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