Do I in that case understand correctly that you are suggesting to remove the minimization button altogether and add nothing in its place (with which I have agreed from the beginning) or simply leave it the way it is? Oh well... I was simply brain-storming along the lines which the discussion went and am now going to dig up the discussion where it was decided to make the single view default (which I find kind of shocking as the grid view (and its simplicity) was what made me so excited about gnome-shell). David Mulder
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Florian Müllner <[email protected] > wrote: > On mar, 2010-03-23 at 07:39 +0100, David Mulder wrote: > > Rather than a new UI, wouldn't a button launching the gnome-shell be > > better, example (see mockup below/attached): > > * You click the button. > > * Gnome shell opens with a text over each workspace "Drop window > > here" (See below). > > * Possibly the rest of the interfaces are greyed out, and only > > activate after clicking outside the dropable workspaces or the button > > above it. > > By default there is only one workspace visible in the activities > overview (branded linear/single view). The "traditional" gnome-shell > overview with all workspaces displayed in a grid still exists as an > alternative (called (surprise!) grid view) - your approach assumes that > the overview uses that mode. > > While I'm sure that this can be addressed, it is not my main concern; in > my opinion, the minimize action is primarily used to get windows > (temporarily) out of the way (with the intention to bring them back > later). Forcing the user to deal with the window explicitly does not fit > in very well here - as long as the window can be brought back easily, > users should not care where it goes. > > I also don't see much benefit over the current workflow of entering the > overview and dragging the window to another workspace - the activities > button is a much easier target than any title bar element, and drag and > drop is not that much more complicated than a click. > > That said, I don't mean to discourage you at all - the shell is far from > perfect, so keep those ideas coming! > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > >
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