Re: The path of least blame

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 22:05 +0100, Artur Wroblewski wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org> wrote:
> > Slightly off-topic, but I consider it quite interesting that almost everyone
> > complaining about shell's single-window approach picks the terminal as
> > example. We would probably get rid of all complains by special-casing
> > terminals, without the inconsistency being noticed - "normal" people don't
> > use terminals, geeks apparently don't use anything else ...

I use multiple terminals all day; this doesn't interfere with my work at
all.  The launcher and general application/window management works very
well.  GNOME3 is not GNOME 2 [or anything else],  I've no doubt that if
the user takes a deep breath and does things the GNOME3 way they will be
pleased.

> Don't blame geeks. IMHO, it is simply bad design decision - are app icons
> in activities for app switching or app starting?

BOTH.

>  How many app switching
> mechanisms do we need? There are 3 at least now.

And yet people whine that they want the taskbar back.

I generally just dismiss this notion of it-is-hard-to-start, it doesn't
do what I expect...

If a launcher has an already running instance that fact is *visually
indicated* on the launcher.