There are two things to remember that make it smoother. First is that the corner is a VERY big target. You do not need to click on the word activities to bring up the overlay you can swing your mouse over very approximately without looking and it will hit the corner (or press the windows button)
The second thing to remember is that that the search box automatically has focus when the overlay appears. So I do not need to slow down to be precise there either. I can flick my mouse, type CAL+enter quicker and easier than three precise menu clicks the old way. For example, I always used to look in the Internet menu for gpodder (podcasts), because it's a glorified RSS reader which launches your normal media player to play the files, but it installs in the Sound & Video menu and gets me every time. Now I can move it or relearn it, but my point is that every time a new program is installed the other icons move and you slowdown because they are not in the same place (Fitts' law I believe?) The only downside at the moment is that the search box doesn't learn yet. I'm sure they can port the heuristics from something like gnome-do later so that the results get more relevant over time I know it's not perfect but my initial reaction the same as you, and I have since grown to appreciate it. 2009/10/16 Денис Черемисов <[email protected]>: > Let's consider the following "activity": IM conversation. Let we need to > compute something with calculator/enter special character/etc within > conversation. It's such a small task, and we easily can perform it in "old > good" gnome-2.28: Applications->Accessories->(Calculator/Character Map/etc). > Very simple and very smooth. But what we would to do with gnome-shell? We > would get horrible flashy overlay when launching what completely breakes > context, then do the same as we now do. Don't you think the cost is too > large? > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > > _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
