It is worthy to note that only GNOME Shell have this _[] removals by
default, I can't see it elsewhere in any major OSes. So a "Welcome
to GNOME Shell < New Features > < Tour Guide >" startup
window with a simple documentation will help users from other
environments. I believe this could be also done by distributions or
by GNOME Shell doc team itself.
Configuring the dconf just to show it back again is relevant only to
the maintainers of Linux/*nix distributions, but I think it is of
little value to _end_ users.
On Tuesday, 15 March, 2011 11:35 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Marshall
Neill <ramien43 windstream net>
wrote:
On 03/14/2011 10:37 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 09:46 -0500, William Jon McCann
wrote:
Hey,
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Florian Müllner<fmuellner gnome org>
wrote:
On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 14:00 +0000, kaddy080 gmail com
wrote:
2) Don't you guys surf the net for porn!!!!????
C'monnnn. Do you know
how hard it is now to hide a webpage quickly when
somebody walks into
the room!!!!???? Don't deny it. You guys watch
porn too ;)
now you ruined everything. haha :)
Uhm - so basically you post to a public mailing list
that you'd like to
keep your porn-browsing habits private?
Well at least he or she didn't describe the type of
porn.
Sounds like a good case for a porn workspace. When
someone walks up
behind you at work, zip it up and switch workspaces.
Another option
is to use the keyboard shortcuts if that's where your
hands are
(doubtful). You may even want to configure a special
keybinding if
getting caught in the act is a common part of your
workflow.
Otherwise you can use the overview to switch away.
Your porn-space
is mostly hidden off the right side of the screen in
the overview.
But let's try to use work-safe examples here in the
future please.
Can't resist continuing this one. As we're talking about
hiding porn
'webpages' we are apparently in a web browser. If you're
trying to keep
your porn browsing private you probably want to be doing
it in Private
Browsing Mode, which - in Firefox, anyway - has a
keyboard shortcut:
shift-ctrl-P. It's even, very conveniently, a shortcut
you can manage
with one hand, if you use the right-hand side ctrl and
shift keys. That
makes it nice and easy to get rid of your porn session
with no
minimizing required - just whack the keyboard shortcut
to quit private
browsing mode and you're right back in your convincingly
work-related
browser session.
I'M JUST SAYIN, IS ALL
(of course, if you're on a work network, you can rely on
the fact that
your friendly office BOFH has your outgoing HTTP
requests logged. Please
refer to said BOFH for the fee schedule for keeping said
logs
private...)
I have been watching this list for some time now and I have
come to a conclusion, perhaps a bad one, but one nonetheless,
you have taken away functionality. The whole gnome shell
thing is woirkspace driven. As I said before, you guys might
use workspaces, but from what I have seen in the years and
years of dealing with computers, not used all that often. Now
if you use workspaces, great, but forcing others to adopt that
mentality, not so sure. No minimize, maximize, why? You
have just removed functionality and I believe minimize was
removed because there isn't any taskbar. Minimize caused the
window to basically disappear and you couldn't find it. Well
if you pressed the Super key or moused over to the Activities
you would find it. More work. Taskbar, there is one, so to
speak, but basically a space stealer. Has a calendar,
woohoo, and the activities plus system tray. Boy that will
cause everyone to drop KDE, XFCE,etc and just stampede over to
the new Gnome Shell. Yeah right. Now I know I am gonna get
nailed bigtime for this e-mail, but I feel it needed to be
said. All I have seen, for the mostpart, is praise. No real
criticisms.
I always thought the basic premise for an upgrade or new
features was productivity. I don't see a lot of that in the
new shell. More mouse moving/clicking, etc.
The functionality is not being removed.. it's not just
visible. You can still get to it via right click on the title
bar or the keyboard shortcut. Why not try it that way instead
of just bashing it? If you don't like it you can always set
the key in dconf to put it back.
The thing about computers is that work models change
constantly. How people interact with their computers change..
today a lot of people are using cell phones and the way they
interact on that is in fact workspace based. The way they
work with tablets is workspace based. I strongly suspect that
the smart phone use models is going to affect the UI desktop
computing. I see this as getting ahead of the curve. (or
perhaps we've always been there.. I've been using workspaces
since 1993)
Maybe you don't agree with the direction and that's
understandable, change isn't always easy to manage especially
if you're happy with the status quo. GNOME has always been
about "just works" and pushing the desktop out of your
consciousness so that you can concentrate on the tasks you're
working on effectively. "Distraction free computing" as is
described in the http://www.gnome3.org/
website. Perhaps this iteration may not the best for you, but
please continue to monitor subsequent iterations and try them
out. Keep an open mind is all we ask. Perhaps you'll
appreciate some of the changes?
sri
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