Re: Gnome-shell - some usability problems I found

[Sean Brady <sbrady gtfservices com>]

On 07/09/2010 01:48 AM, Giovanni Campagna wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Dylan McCall<dylanmccall gmail com>  wrote:
>    
> > On 7/8/10, Mark Curtis<merkinman hotmail com>  wrote:
> >      
> > > I don't under... why the name of the appli... is listed at all.  Pretty much
> > > every appli... name gets trunc... in the overv.... If the curre... setup
> > > can't fit the name of the major... of the progr... even on a defau.... GNOME
> > > install, then maybe somet... is wrong with the design
> > >
> > >        
> > That sums it up for me. What bothers me here is that the overlay has
> > the entire screen - at least 1200 pixels wide - but all these little
> > widgets are trying their hardest to be as small as possible. Here the
> > application browser - The Reason why people click the Activities
> > button - squeezes into less space than an iPhone's home screen. The
> > remaining seven eights of the screen do nothing.
> >      
> Except that the main focus of the Activities button is not application
> / places / documents, is the workspace overview, which in fact takes
> up as much space as possible. This said, I agree with you that most
> applications have their names truncated and can be recognized only
> because you remember them and their icons: would it be enough to add a
> tooltip showing the full application name (Name + GenericName)?
>
>    
> > The design may be more interesting if there aren't a hundred apps to
> > switch between (one reason why iPhone's works), but that needs some
> > well defined philosophy changes first.
> >      
> What do you propose? The menu, again? Or the list like recent docs
> (which works for even less apps)?
>
>    

A tool tip would be perfect.  Or make it scroll like the app name does 
when you start an app.