Comments on: GNOME Shell Status – 2009-02-09 http://blog.fishsoup.net/2009/02/10/gnome-shell-status-2/ Owen Taylor on Coding, Food, etc. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:41:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Owen http://blog.fishsoup.net/2009/02/10/gnome-shell-status-2/#comment-1856 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:04:20 +0000 http://blog.fishsoup.net/?p=89#comment-1856 Marcus: you can also click on launchers to launch them. DND to launch is, in fact, a very convenient and natural way to start multiple apps on different desktops (try building the shell and try it out!), but like most uses of DND it’s not very discoverable.

I’m closing this post for comments now; feedback appreciated on our mailing list, or hop onto #gnome-shell on IRC and talk to us in person.

]]> By: Marcus Brinkmann http://blog.fishsoup.net/2009/02/10/gnome-shell-status-2/#comment-1855 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:33:00 +0000 http://blog.fishsoup.net/?p=89#comment-1855 This looks like one of those things that I would play with for 5 minutes and then switch it off and forget about it. Here is the main problem I see: From the videos, it seems that the Gnome Shell thinks what is most important is the Gnome Shell. The desktop and applications get thumbnailed, and the user is expected to do gymnastics like drag & drop simply to start an application. That’s fun the first three times you do it, but then it’s just awkward.

Drag and drop is not even an easy, simple motion.

I’d rather like to see a shell that is integrated into the desktop rather than a desktop that is integrated into a shell.

The best user interface is the one you don’t even notice. This seems to be the opposite of that. I don’t even know how to fix it incrementally from where you are, sorry :-/

]]> By: Owen http://blog.fishsoup.net/2009/02/10/gnome-shell-status-2/#comment-1851 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:27:47 +0000 http://blog.fishsoup.net/?p=89#comment-1851 @Sam: I’m not sure what you are talking about in particular, people from all environments are pretty good about discussing changes on xdg@lists.freedesktop.org.

]]> By: Sam http://blog.fishsoup.net/2009/02/10/gnome-shell-status-2/#comment-1842 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:31:21 +0000 http://blog.fishsoup.net/?p=89#comment-1842 Out of curiosity, is there going to be any effort in cooperating with KDE and E17 on the new systray spec? It would be a shame if GTK+ applications failed to display themselves properly in modern desktop environments.

]]> By: frustphil http://blog.fishsoup.net/2009/02/10/gnome-shell-status-2/#comment-1824 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 13:50:07 +0000 http://blog.fishsoup.net/?p=89#comment-1824 @Butbut: Agreed. I wish they have done it before this mockup was made? No need to rush things out just for the sake of redesigning the shell…

@ulrik: That would be nice…:)

]]> By: lsh http://blog.fishsoup.net/2009/02/10/gnome-shell-status-2/#comment-1822 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:24:18 +0000 http://blog.fishsoup.net/?p=89#comment-1822 Look at DockBar (Taskbar with groups)
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/DockBar?content=97822

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