Re: Gnome-shell - some usability problems I found

["Allan E. Registos" <allan registos smpc steniel com ph>]

On the other hand, when I am searching for an app that I'm unfamiliar with I use either the keyboard shortcut or I roll over the icons.  I don't think that's any worse than what we have.

When we are unfamiliar with an app, we can't search it by typing since after all, unfamiliarity mostly is equal to "I don't know the name of the app" so hovering over the icons is the solution with the current build.  Therefore, as I said, it is still difficult, since unfamiliarity leads also to "i don't know the icon of the app" until the icons can be categorized into something that we can easily distinguish which ones are new(newly installed apps), the internet/cloud apps, etc. At least in the ancient Windows XP, the user will get the notification when there is a new app installed and the entry is being highlighted. Still the Applications > Places > System is still superior in my taste. 

I understand that this is not yet final, and I am hoping that the APPLICATION menu can be improved in the coming months. 

As I type this email, the chat notification pops up and it is pretty impressive since I can type my reply directly into it, though there are still rooms for improvement in the design.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sriram Ramkrishna" <sri ramkrishna me>
To: "Allan E. Registos" <allan registos smpc steniel com ph>
Cc: gnome-shell-list gnome org
Sent: Thursday, July 8, 2010 1:05:48 PM
Subject: Re: Gnome-shell - some usability problems I found

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Allan E. Registos <allan registos smpc steniel com ph> wrote:

I don't know if this was discussed already, I understand that the developers are busy, and so we "users" are also busy.  But I will try to voice my concern over the APPLICATION menu(or whatever it is).

With the current build, the icon-based APPLICATION is pretty useless to me. Unless you are familiar with the image/icon (of your app) and can memorize the "keyword" of what application (using search) it becomes more difficult to find the app especially when you have tons of applications buried inside.

So, I had made a similar complaint before.  But I found that this set up is no worse or better than the previous panel menu setup.  Mostly because to do this day I'm never quite sure when I apt-get an app where it is going to show up in the menu.  So I still hunt for applications in the menu system when I add something new or not used something in a long time.  On the other hand, when I am searching for an app that I'm unfamiliar with I use either the keyboard shortcut or I roll over the icons.  I don't think that's any worse than what we have.

sri