Just another Feedback Post

[Christoph Hack <christoph tux21b org>]

Dear Gnome Shell Team!

I started trying out gnome-shell via jhbuild the day before yesterday
and I am deeply impressed! Well done!

The things I like most are the new automatic workspace management, the 
notification system, the maximize (half) function per DnD, single 
instances per default and a few more features. :)

Even going through the activities overview when switching windows starts
to makes sense now. First I liked it, then on the next day I was a bit 
annoyed, but now I think I have already adapted to the less distracting 
working habit. Hopefully the new notification system will finally bring
the remaining constant window switching habit to an end once the 
applications are starting to use it.

So, and here comes the list of things I don't currently like:

(1) Currently the most annoying thing is when I try to click on an Icon 
in the bottom notification bar. Let's say "Banshee". Whenever my mouse 
pointer reaches the icon, the icon moves away and the title of the 
Application (in that case "Banshee") appears beside it. Unfortunately, I
can't simply click on the text (that took me some time to find out, first 
I just thought the system isn't always reacting), so I have to start
chasing the small icon... Please change that :)

(2) When I click to adjust the volume bar in the system panel, the audio 
"bubble" stays open, so I can re-adjust it and so on, which is good. But 
when I click on "Bluetooth on/off" the bubble closes immediately, so I 
can't see the button toggling its state (Have i hit the correct entry?) 
and I can't change additional options like "Bluetooth Visibility on/off". 
Imho all those "bubbles" should stay open until I click somewhere else.

(3) Pressing Strg+Alt+Tab in the overview to gain keyboard support is not 
very intuitive and the combination is hard to type.

(4) Switching open windows by name (by hitting <Super_L>, typing 
"Terminal" or "Chrome" and pressing <Enter>) is nearly unusable on my 
small Eee (Atom CPU) since the search feature takes quite long to react, 
blocking the whole workflow.

(5) The fonts in the shell theme are far too big. I've changed the font 
settings on my Eee to 78 dpi, but the shell fonts aren't affected so they 
are now twice as big (felt sense) as the application fonts. There is 
already a bug report with patches, so please integrate it.

(6) The gnome-terminal (and maybe other transparent windows) has only an 
transparent background when its fully maximized and a solid one when it's 
in normal mode or maximized to only one half of the screen. Bug or 
intention?

So, that's all. Keep up the good work!

Regards,
Christoph