Hi
My name is Buyongo Phiri, I am from Southafrica and would like to contribute to Gnome Project especially my thoughts on the shell. I have found that using it full-time is great but the shell makes it hard to manage windows and applications because of the grouping of the functionality on the hot corner. I think separating the workspace and windows from hot corner would be better and making workspace switcher hide when not needed. The app dock on the left would also work better if it could show up without going to hot corner making it the destination for all my often used apps. The hot corner would be perfect for launching apps I rarely use and other things like search. Also if apps could be categorized on the dash sorting would be easier. I think behavior like so would suit users better.
Hot corner - Dash with app categories - List of apps in category
Right now its very hard to find and app when you install one with the way apps are listed similar to mobiles, people should only click on hot corner for something specific /special. I can do diagrams to show what I mean if people don't understand me.
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1. Re: Desktop management. - Discussions topics proposal.
(Pawe? Kubik)
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Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:08:19 +0100
From: Pawe? Kubik <engr maxyan gmail com>
To: Kirk Bridger <kbridger shaw ca>
Cc: usability gnome org
Subject: Re: [Usability] Desktop management. - Discussions topics
proposal.
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Well. I was thinking specifically about Gnome Shell. Someone has recently
complained that switching windows hot corner is very uncomfortable. Can
anyone fully agree? I can't. When I have many windows opened and I'm
constantly opening and closing them, it's great, however sometimes people
need some integrated environment.
When I am using only few windows I can remember which one has been opened
first. Then the best solution is surprisingly the one from Windows 7, where
SuperKey+numbers switches to corresponding window on the bar. It's so
obvious and easy that we may think that we have nothing to do with it. Of
course it's false!
We can still make improvements. I simply want to introduce some ideas to
increase out productivity (well, maybe not best word for people who just
talk). In the high school I was forced to read poetry. At first I could it
twenty times I don't see anything, but analysing line by line let me deepen
my interpretations. It didn't change my negative attitude at all, but
showed me how how much can be overlooked in overall view. (sorry if I am
obvious once again). The intuition may omit some things. By analysing
single case we can find solution for wide range of them, just as by
analysing single verse of poem we can find an idea for whole interpretation.
(I wouldn't like to be considered a great art lover who I'm not. I know
that my comparison may be less helpful as it pretended to be.)
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