Re: Active Applications list



Hi all!

That has really be discussed to an end sorry - no new points, see the
mailing list archive.

Feel free to write that great default extension that will do all that
and will fit into the design and post it here. But please code it - no
more mockups, no more ideas, let the code speak.

Thanks,
Johannes

Am Donnerstag, den 24.06.2010, 19:13 +0200 schrieb Giovanni Campagna:
> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Sean Dunwoody <sean_dunwoody yahoo com> wrote:
> > I still haven't seen a valid reason not to integrate a window list of some
> > form or other, I know that Gnome 3.0 is meant to be a reinvention of gnome
> > but I can understand why people would be angry, every OS I can think of has
> > an easy way of changing applications (often involving a window list) that
> > can be accessed easily without having to 'zoom out' of what your doing and
> > trying to find the application you want . . . which can be rather difficult
> > if you have a lot of applications open at once, and also it can be very
> > distracting, there have been many a time where this has broken my workflow,
> > and whilst I mostly use alt + tab I find it frustrating the way that the
> > alt+tab in gnome 3 handles multiple windows of the same application.
> >
> 
> Speaking personally, I thought the same when I first encountered GNOME
> Shell, and actually supposed that the then existing sidebar would be
> extended to be a full featured dock. Having used it more, I find the
> Activity overview useful as an overview, and got progressively used to
> alt-tabbing to change windows. Still, I sometimes need more time to
> alt-tab than it used to take with GNOME Panel (as the order of the
> application changes every time, so you need to be careful to focus the
> right one), but gradually it becomes so automatic I don't even use the
> sort-of-dock I posted earlier in this topic.
> 
> Nevertheless, I think you are right: the first impact with the total
> absence of immediate window management is puzzling, and therefore I
> would like to see some sort of default extension, that is a dock /
> similar system, that is not part of the core program (and thus can be
> easily disabled, upgraded, replaced...) but still is distributed
> inside gnome-shell tarball. I can see the distributor doing this, if
> upstream is not done (assuming they do ship GNOME Shell, which is not
> mentioned either by Ubuntu 10.10 or Fedora 14, both of which plan to
> include GNOME 3.0)
> 
> > ________________________________
> > From: Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan club fr>
> > To: Nick <soapduk gmail com>
> > Cc: gnome-shell-list gnome org
> > Sent: Thu, 24 June, 2010 11:53:29
> > Subject: Re: Active Applications list
> >
> > Le jeudi 24 juin 2010 à 22:19 +1200, Nick a écrit :
> >> I propose some kind of active apps/tasks list that is displayed at all
> >> times. I get the feeling that the developers want to keep the
> >> panel/task bar (whatever it is being called) clutter free, so they are
> >> not going to want program names splattered across it. I think the
> >> solution would be to have smallish icons of the active apps/tasks
> >> displayed next to the activities button.
> > Hi and thanks for trying the Shell and reporting. This issue has been
> > discussed many times already on this list though, and designers and
> > developers don't have the time to answer again an again the same
> > concerns.
> >
> > To be short: it's at the core or the Shell's design to work with the
> > overview rather than an application list. Though the Shell has a support
> > for optional extensions, so if somebody steps in and provides an
> > application list extension, this feature will be available for people
> > who feel the need for it. But not by default.
> >
> > Sorry to be quick, but if you want more details, see the list archives
> > for the last few months:
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/
> > and be sure to read the design documents too:
> > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
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> Giovanni
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