Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

[Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk redhat com>]

On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 10:08 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk redhat com>
> wrote:
>         Is it a policy of Gnome Desktop to shoehorn users into fixed
>         UI style
>         instead of offering them reasonable choice? What next,
>         hardwired window
>         title color and size?
> 
> There is no policy as such.  As I said earlier, why not try it first
> and see how it works before criticizing the design?
> 
> I'm a systems administrator I have a ton of windows open, I used to
> use the taskbar, and I don' and it's been okay for me.  While
> something was taken away,

Why something has to be taken away? I mean, unconditionally?
There is a better way: (a) make it configurable, (b) make it
"off" by default. If almost no one switches it back on, great,
it means practice proved that the replacement is better,
and it can be removed altogether.
If many people switch it back on, then perhaps it needs to stay.

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vda