Re: My opinions on Gnome Shell

[Florian Kuhnt <florian kuhnt gmx de>]

Am Sonntag, den 19.06.2011, 17:12 +0100 schrieb Dimitris M.: 
> The effects are pretty fast on my machine too. However they still blow my focus.
> In general moving things are intrusive. Here is my list of intrusiveness, from worst
> to less bad:
> 
> 1. Rearranging stuff. I map the relative position of each open window in my desktop
> even when they are overlapped. The rearranging effect completely destroys that.

> 2. Moving stuff (slides, scales, etc.)
> 
> 3. Fades in and out.

Have you tried the native-window-placement extension? This extension
tries to solve the arranging, scaling and positioning problems.

You can get it from here
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell-extensions/tree/extensions/native-window-placement

or it is packaged in your distribution.


Florian