Re: Gnome-Shell - questions and opinions

[Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>]

On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 10:17 +1100, Bojan Smojver wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 23:06 +0000, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > I'm not sure to what extent you can expect people to make this leap.
> 
> So, what you're saying is that people understand that they can have
> multiple "home screens" (which are completely not static - they in fact
> all have apps of one kind or another running on them), but they could
> never grok "workspaces". I find that hard to believe.

These are always called 'widgets', and not 'apps'. The two are
considered quite distinct.

And you vastly overstate my argument. I phrased it, intentionally, very
mildly; please do not presume to put the word 'never' in my mouth.

> Just look at various Android "home screen" UIs. Some of them even have
> "pinch to zoom" on any home screen, where you actually get all home
> screens visible at the same time and you pick one you want. In that
> representation they are spaces, for all intents and purposes (they are
> just not called spaces). Some phone web browsers are working the same
> way as well.

That ignores the point that applications are not associated with
particular home screens.

> So, extending this metaphor to the desktop is a no-brainer. Give users
> credit - vast majority of them already to this stuff every day.

The vast majority of people do not use smartphones. However, I'm not a
fan of the 'vast majority' line of argument in general, so let's leave
it there.
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