It's not that it's not a good idea, it's just not what Gnome Shell is trying to achieve (focusing on documents + tasks/activities, rather than applications), as I see it. Nevertheless, you could try implementing it as an extension, given some expected work to make the panel extensible and to add an useful API for extension developers.
Giovanni On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Jeroen Verhoeckx <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Gnome Shell developers and users, > > I just got one respond on my last email. I'm glad that it was a positive one. > However I'm wondering why I didn't get more. Is it because people don't like > the idea or > are there just very few people on this mailing list? > > Nonetheless I made a new mock-up ;-) ! > > The differences with the former > mock-up is: > * Moved the 'add app' button to the right because this is > something that users shouldn't need to use often. > > If you want, > you easily simulate > the Gnome Shell Tabbed Interface: > * Move the > Window list to the top panel (off course this doesn't work exactly > as the 'Application menu' in Gnome Shell!!) > * Open Google Chrome > > The advantage of having the applications and the tabs at the top of the > screen is that you can work much more > efficiently. You just need to move the mouse just a few centimetres to get > where you want. But > the most important advantage is that the > applications are always in > view of the user and that he or she doesn't have to zoom out just to see what > is open or closed. > > I'm hoping on a little more feedback his time ;-). > > Yours sincerely, > > Jeroen > _______________________________________________ > 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
