Re: Nautilus vs gnome-shell and the future
- From: Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>
- To: Giacomo Bordiga <gbordiga gmail com>
- Cc: gnome-shell-list gnome org, nautilus-list gnome org, Зоран Рила
- Subject: Re: Nautilus vs gnome-shell and the future
- Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:51:57 +0100
On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 00:58 +0100, Giacomo Bordiga wrote:
> 2009/12/4 Зоран Рилак <zoran rilak gmail com>
> For what it's worth, I need to interject here. I know many
> people
> (myself included) who turn desktop icons off, not because I
> keep many
> windows open all the time (it's easy to access desktop as
> Cosimo wrote),
> but because I hate to look at the messy, unevenly shaped,
> partially
> overlapping icons, sometimes with large gaps between them.
> More than,
> say, 5 or 6 icons on the desktop simply demand my attention;
> they
> scream: "Drag us around! Make us look neat!" Then I have to
> keep doing
> that for every new couple of icons that land on the desktop.
>
> This [1] is a mockup I made 1 year and half ago. I'm not sure if it
> can still be interesting/useful in the next gnome evolution. Still to
> me is a step forward to the current desktop icon management.
>
> In addition to Cosimo's points i think the desktop is also often used
> as a "buffer" for temporary file operation, works in progress or not
> yet categorized files.
>
> [1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/7449355 N06/2329133852/
I don't think enforcing a layout like this on the desktop is a good
idea. I guess it might be nice to have some form of better arrangement
when you "Clean up by name", but having a fixed layout like that gives
you less space for your own files and forces the use of the desktop as
more of a place to launch other locations. The current main usecase for
the desktop is being a location where the user works on his current set
of active files, although that may change with gnome-shell as per this
discussion.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc
alexl redhat com alexander larsson gmail com
He's a lonely misogynist barbarian trapped in a world he never made. She's a
virginal hypochondriac snake charmer who can talk to animals. They fight
crime!
[
Date Prev][
Date Next] [
Thread Prev][
Thread Next]
[
Thread Index]
[
Date Index]
[
Author Index]