Hi, Haven't really caught up on the entire thread yet. But wanted to respond to this one point.
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Felipe Erias Morandeira <[email protected]> wrote: > You are suggesting a task bar/window list/dock, even if you don't want > to say it. The visual appearance and user experience is obviously open > to debate, but at the end of the day we want a way to have all windows > in the current activity displayed together, so switching to a certain > one is just a matter of point and click. Yeah, every other system has > something like that and we want GNOME Shell to be different... but have > we considered that maybe they all have it because it makes sense? Isn't > switching between open windows one of the major use cases of a modern > desktop system? Whether it makes sense or not isn't really the issue. You can't really properly analyze a design piece by piece anyway. But speaking of modern desktop systems, I don't know of a single OS environment designed in the last, say, 5 years that has a window based taskbar. Do you? (Docks and live window previews are different.) Vista was probably the last one ever. Jon _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
