-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 First of all I'd like to say that I'm not usability specialist (I'm not event 'normal' user - I'm closer to power user). However after some time of using the gnome-shell (from about GNOME 2.27.x) I noted a few problems - and they are more the minor problems (I believe) in design rather that 'bugs' so I decided to post it here.
I know that GNOME 3.0 is near but I guess it should be somewhere addressed (possibly in GNOME 3.2) - - Application-based navigation in gnome-shell may be nice idea but in some cases it has no high usability. If someone have more than one document it can be hard to navigate - all I have is white boxes with some text. The fade-out provides little clue where should I find an application. There *are* names and I can use recent items but there are some problems with this approach: 1. It does not work for terminals as they are not documents. 2. Recent items can get spammed by some applications - for example seeing 160 photos from camera destroys the whole list Anyway the problem is not that it is not impossible. The problem is that it is harder. - - Working with workspace is harder. When I had gnome-panel I had about 8 workspaces constantly opened and I had 1:1 relationship between tasks and workspaces. Now I use one workspace. The problem is the change from 'array' approach to 'linked list' approach. Also I cannot rearrange them or insert workspace in the middle. I also cannot rearrange freely the workspaces. I had the set up where all programming tasks was next to each other etc. I understand that gnome-shell is probably targeted at users who are not necessary familiar with computers. However after some time of using gnome-shell I find it *less* task-based and harder to use using my work flow. Regards -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAwAGBQJMMg5gAAoJEJIdee2Vr4aPLW8P/j+1yEOUCATY3y2Q9xwOyJ7n ooIBfzq9wmiE4I9U/xJ+dKuYtRgEhvjo6EOQT4eTql7P4sNYEJh6QiIuU/0cK7ES 9O8/nYSBMDhrzz4uq5Li2SBDQZFRxc4U0PVr5UcLuBMVI+Gutk6Yjn4OebbV/tid qOe0utMnEHPr7g9t29b6N5UO1op2EawSqmpDT5PDWXn5O+FnxeGFIHTxEGwV48Oy 7ciOMONF4Ok8p9NW4FpxSnAHu2oG/ZERqmL9JobIa6XzoIW95cpdwdNGjwCLjCa+ g9532IL9FmRzOLTGYyugFSVP4P9ACVLgpz34M2MUD5GUeXJhu+Dl7T1+eOV1IrlZ TF0jhkVBKaUN0p3+/RhANQlRuBMTEdhzDsFDHUEnVhlNPYylHcANRqdLyoH//pOx RrAUA8XRQue0q+nFeKwbC4GjtnKHdMo+RqotUDyO5yCWQl6Y8uZJnyWa9gPFIXnu SbSzrleA6qunw+AxnSlFkU9ojj8/X4d8Nt0Es0H7AhER6Qvy54GKww+pCMaNzMoS M+sVa9ikJMjVsPXKVGxYdG854g/vsb5GvInYrtNWWRDHL2eaYACnP3FKmFtfLWvS FNpUmARMUI3XxlYwLEarpbyH//107Cx9gpEQKCr8+JXgv82glzvlaoWabXvKn2pv JQqTqU86QhLcX3AxHDyy =nxhl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
