Logging user interaction with GNOME Shell

[Brian Baker <brian m baker gmail com>]

I think this a good idea and don't mind volunteering for this.

I am using the latest from ricotz/testing ppa and also the ubuntu 12.04 and use G-S as my main desktop.

you can get me at brian m baker gmail com

cheers

BB

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Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:58:24 -0200
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Subject: Sugestions worth a look
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I've been using non stop both Gnome3 and Unity from Ubuntu. Here's what
I've got:

1 - Gnome3 still have some quirks/bugs->some submenus get weird, sided,
unreadable.

2 - Gnome is going the right way, good for desktop and handhelds, even
celphones.

3 - When you go shell (super key), the ideia of putting the workspaces on
the right side is great, but it's really too small if you are going to
manage too many  apps and workspaces. I sugest this: When the user focus on
the workspaces place, it should grow into the middle of the screen so you
can see what you are doing, and should separate workspaces by two columns,
and as rows as needed, the rows would function as they do now, when the
focus go down, rows roll up. That's really important because the way it is
now, in small screens it doesn't work.

4 - On the left side: There MUST be a trash for easy access, I suggest on
the bottom, and below the one that removes links from apps.

5 - One thing Unity got wright: On the left panel(apps launcher), small
triangles indicating if the app is up, and how many windows of it are there
is a good idea, it's visual and simple.

--
Fernando da Motta Hildebrand
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Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:41:06 +0100
From: Felipe Erias Morandeira <femorandeira igalia com>
To: "gnome-shell-list gnome org" <gnome-shell-list gnome org>
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On 23/01/12 15:06, William Jon McCann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Also see:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584970

Just added a comment there:

There could be a couple of approaches to carrying out this testing. One
would be to have the extension openly available, and wait for people to
install it and send us their reports. This has the problem that it would
give us results from a very narrow kind of people, who are already
technical experts.

We do not need hundreds of participants as much as we need that they are
representative of typical intermediate users. For instance, Nielsen
recommends testing with 20 users when collecting quantitative usability
metrics:

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/quantitative_testing.html

So, the other option would be to develop this extension, and then have
some GNOMErs recruit participants (e.g. friends, relatives) and set up
the experiment for them. I guess that it should not be hard to recruit a
couple dozen people this way.

The experiment itself would need to be as automated as possible, so one
of us could simply go to our friend's computer, download and install the
extension, and upload the results a couple of weeks later (together with
some general demographic info on the participant).

We can discuss if it would make sense to make the data publicly
available (after anonimizing, of course), or if only some selected
people should have access to it.

As for the technical part, I don't really know much about the detailed
implementation of the Shell and how we could write this experimental
extension (maybe it could be built on top of the a11y infrastructure???).


Felipe

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