On Friday 18 December 2009 19:29:54 Ryan Peters wrote: > A dock, like someone suggested (AWN, Cairo Dock and Docky are nice), is > a great idea. AWN 0.4 beta can even be set to work/look like a standard > panel. > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list >
I'm in favor of this idea. In fact, it has become almost defacto behaviour for me to have a Cairo-AWN-like dock in my everyday desktop. I use Cairo on my desktop and AWN on my notebook (since the Intel card on my notebook makes using Cairo quite impossible, at least nowadays). I've found there's no easiest and fastest way to change between apps, with the only possible exception of keeping one main app per desktop and switching between desktops with my keyboard (and remembering which app is in which desktop, and remembering the desktop map in my mind, but that's just something I do because i'm quite crazy :-) Sure, the dock can become quite crowded sometimes if you can't get the hang of it, but nevertheless it can be a way of seeing what apps you have open, even in all desktops at the same time. Hell, I've switched to KDE4 a few months ago and neither KDE's default shiny taskbar nor win7-like stasks were able to replace Cairo. It just feels natural now to me. Regarding the app-launching, I agree with what has been said that the app menu is meant for discovering. There's also no fastest way to launch an app (as long as you have your hands in your keyboard) than an intuitive, semantic search box (much like Gnome-DO, Krunner or Kupfer are). I believe someone has already mentioned on the list the benefits of using the keyboard to do things instead of the mouse, one of the major ones being speed improvement. I also believe that the search box should become something like Gnome-DO: not only a launcher but also a place where you can do things with your keyboard that would take several mouse clicks and movements instead. 0.02 cheers Juan Manuel _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
