Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

[Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk redhat com>]

On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 13:30 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk redhat com>
> wrote:
>         On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 09:33 -0500, Ryan Peters wrote:
>         > Expecting GNOME 3 to be the same as every
>         > other OS is unrealistic; GNOME 3 is not a straightforward
>         upgrade from
>         > GNOME 2 and requires re-training. I thought that was
>         understood.
>         
>         
>         For me, Gnome 3 appears as part of Fedora 13->15 upgrade.
>         I didn't elect to try this new UI. It is sort of forced on
>         Fedora 15
>         users, unless they want to be left on soon-to-be obsolete
>         unsupported
>         Fedora 13 (not a realistic option for me).
>         
>         Very different situation from "one installs Gnome 3 because
>         he hates Gnome 2 and needs something newer and different".
>         
>         > > I don't like disruptive innovation when it is not
>         presented as an
>         > > option, but showed down my throat by force.
>         > > Tell me, how the particular bit of innovation which
>         removed the
>         > > possibility to have app launch icons in top panes is
>         useful?
>         > > Why this new thing (or rather, absence of old, perfectly
>         working thing)
>         > > is not optional?
>         >
>         > Explain to me how it's so hard to move your mouse to the
>         left instead of
>         > upwards.
>         
>         
>         Explaining:
>         Now I need to move it upwards, then downwards.
>         
>         If I want to start four apps in a row, which I do every day in
>         the
>         morning, I can't go up and click-click-click-click, I need to
>         go up, go down and click,
>         go up, go down and click,
>         go up, go down and click,
>         go up, go down and click. 
> 
> What about a compromise like not kicking you out of the overview after
> launching apps?

This would be a step in the right direction, yes.

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