Re: Gnome objectives

["dE ." <de techno gmail com>]

Precisely, as I was saying this looks more for an embedded device. So
it should take on lower priority as with the netbook interface for
KDE... and unlike what gnome is doing now, the KDE team did a great
job designing it.

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Gerald Henriksen <ghenriks gmail com> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:06:04 +0100, you wrote:
>
>>continuing it. Do you thing the iPhone was successfull because it was
>>like all the other smartphones? No, it was because it had a new and
>>clever concept.
>
> The iPhone wasn't successful because it had a clever concept, it was
> successful because Apple designed it for what it is - a device with a
> small screen which needed an interface that worked within that
> constraint.
>
> Which brings us to the problem with Gnome Shell - the design decisions
> seemed to be based on the idea that you are running it on a small
> screen where having a taskbar takes up needed screen space.
>
> This is why some people are objecting to Gnome Shell, because in the
> belief that the taskbar is wasting space needed for applications it
> has been removed, making mouse navigation harder.
>
> Moving between programs using a mouse is easy with a taskbar - you
> move down to the icon/name of the program you want and select it and
> go.  But with Gnome Shell you first have to go to the upper left to
> get the list of open applications to appear, and then you can select
> what you want.  This involves an extra step that intrudes into the
> workflow by needlessly causing extra mouse movement as well as visual
> distraction with the shrinking/expanding of the entire desktop
> unnecessarily.
>
> I really want to like Gnome Shell, I think some of the ideas it
> provides are very exciting and have tried it several times since it
> was first packaged in Fedora.  Perhaps if I was a user who primarily
> navigated around my desktop using the keyboard or who used different
> workspaces I would have been happy and stayed with it.  But I am not,
> I use the mouse and don't use workspaces, and the result is that Gnome
> Shell feels very awkward and I quickly abandon it.
>
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