Re: my gnome-shell proposal

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

Hi there,

First off, thanks for taking so much interest in doing this.  A couple of comments on your proposal.

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 5:58 PM, <kaddy080 gmail com> wrote:

I have some designs drawn up... forgive me if it is not professional looking... but my ideas are good... I will give the links to the designs and a link
to my youtube video explaining the implementation....

They look fine to me.
 

here is the video on my channel....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9OP5I5lkfk

And here are the rough designs I drawn up on paper that I used in that video....

Panel http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/Whiteboard/GnomeShell?action="">

So the problem here is that having a menu near a hotspot is that invariably, the user will end up hitting the hot spot instead of trying to get to the recent menu or journal menu.  So you really can't have it close to the Activities menu.  Otherwise, you'll trigger the overview mode and if that happens enough times it will create a lot of frustration. So you'll have to keep that blank.

As for showing the application, I agree that having the app disappear is kinda wierd.  I'm not sure how that is dealt with.  I need to go back and refresh my memory on the design again.  In the panel there is something that says what is running, can you not click on that?
 

Activities http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/Whiteboard/GnomeShell?action="">

Places http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/Whiteboard/GnomeShell?action="">

See my thoughts above on the places.  If you have places already you probably don't want anything in overview mode which I think you referred to some kind of thing there.  You're idea of having a menu in the overview mode will not likely be accepted.  We had a discussion regarding this some months back, they don't really want to categorize the applications.  The current setup works well enough, but the proof is in the user testing.  I don't feel like debating esoteric design decisions without data that says it sucks or not.  It might not.  I'm not a typical user so it's hard for me to judge.  The list of common apps tend to remain in the "5 most recent apps". 
 

Journal http://live.gnome.org/UsabilityProject/Whiteboard/GnomeShell?action="">

let me know what you guys think of my vision of gnome-shell...

Looks, okay. Good stuff. :)

sri