Re: Overview animation

[Tim <darkxst fastmail fm>]

I have thought this at times also, perhaps its of failure of the gnome-shell UX, when I tend to use synapse for launching applications most of
the time.

I would be nice to be able to get the application launcher without entering overview!


On 23/06/12 04:00, Alexandre Kaspar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been with Gnome-Shell since it's early time before 3.0, but am now using it
> daily on Fedora 17 (and previously 16), and I start to find the overall thing a bit painful to use,
> mostly because of one flaw which is the animation when going from the default
> view to the overview, which I use a lot for search (and application startup).
>
> I find the zoom out/in animation just painful to see every time.
> It takes time, it's not always smooth, and I just don't want to look at it.
> It seems like a waste of my time, plus some more energy to focus on what is where
> and why it's going to where it goes.
>
> I saw ubuntu's hub system and the search which looks far much more user-friendly, in that
> it doesn't take you out of the normal work. You keep the things where they are, but
> you can search things, and have access to the dash on the left.
>
> I wish there was a way to have a shorter overview system. Does it exist ? Is it possible ?
>
> i.e. <Super> would just trigger a basic overview without the layout part (no zoom-out, nor workspace display)
> so that I can focus on what I'm doing and not the layout (which I find too superficial).
> and then allow a full overview like today with <Super>+ some other key (Alt maybe ?)
>
> I really find it painful to have to see this animation every single time I access the dash or the search.
> Of course, I could just use <Alt>+F2 to trigger the command prompt, but there's no feedback with this one.
> And I like the overview search, because I can do things with it, such as math computations, or unit conversion, or document viewing, or
> websearches.
>
> Gnome 3.4 brought a great new layout management where we can put things in between the current workspaces,
> and I find it great. But I just cannot stand to see it every single time.
> Disabling animation doesn't help, because I want my current windows to stay where they are, just have a smaller overview
> which would be on top of what is already present, and not an overview as now, where what is present
> just gets scrambled in the middle of the screen.
>
> Thanks for any solution or pointing me to what I should look for.
> Alexandre Kaspar
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