Re: Re: A task panel

[Kao Chen <kaochen2 gmail com>]

Extensions can be  a good things, if we have one only interface in order to download them, enable/disable them, and change their options.
If each extension have got its own different way to install or different ways to change its options, it will be a big mess. We need a extensions center.

I return to the task-panel subject. 
I thinks it will be a major extension, even if I prefer a direct integration.

So, in my research of the perfect solution, I built an other mockup and I added a wheel.
Turn the wheel and you can access to each open applications.
We can turn it by just approaching the mouse, without click
I always forgot the desktop shortcut in my mockup but i think we really need one.
I hope that you'll like it
http://nsa15.casimages.com/img/2010/05/22/100522021446485052.jpg

Kao

2010/5/22 Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>

One of the nice things about software freedom is that you're able to write the patch and someone might pick it up and apply if there is demand.  Ubuntu, and other distros can apply your patch. 

That said, I think there is talk about an extensions system which we could put these together.  It makes sense to have a light core with some basic stuff and then people can extend it with plugins to do alt-tab or whatever.  Having a vibrant eco-system around gnome-shell is essentially in at least giving GNOME looking vibrant.  Witness the commercials on android and iphones which always talk about thousands of apps.  We want to do something similar.  Hopefully we can convince devs that is the way to go and implement such a thing.

sri

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 8:08 AM, <jhs jsschmid de> wrote:

Hi!

> Instead of complaining, I'd like somebody who really feels the need for
> a dock-like feature to actually step in and provide an extension for it.
> The Shell is written in _javascript_, you could add a way to activate
> Alt+Tab with the mouse in a few lines.

I was willing to do that but was told (on IRC, see this thread) that it
will NEVER be included officially in gnome-shell and as such, yeah, I have
better ways to spend my time and other bugs to fix.

I am also pretty sure that the implementation is rather trivial :)

Just my 2 cents,

Johannes

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