Re: Suggestion: Make a dock from application icons in overview

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 02:31:42 -0800 

Oh yes, deskbar-applet... I had totally forgot about that one. :)
What do you think about developing this feature as a widget instead of a GTK application? It would make it easier to make it simplistic, it would blend into the rest of gnome-shell better and it would be easier to style with accelerated animations and such. :) 

Perhaps we could make a new GUI for deskbar-applet?

Jon

On 12/03/2010 11:24 AM, Stefano Facchini wrote:

Yes this would be a great feature! There are many applets for gnome
doing this, I especially liked deskbar-applet. I read that development
of deskbar has been interruped, so maybe it could be merged in shell,
kind of "adoption" ?

Il giorno ven, 03/12/2010 alle 10.00 +0100, Jon Kristensen ha scritto:

On a side note: One thing that I would LOVE in Gnome Shell is a better
Alt + F2 application launcher (and a more convenient shortcut, such as
Alt + Space) that provides completion while you're typing, and that
has some kind of grammar allowing you to do other things than just
launching binaries. See GNOME Do ( http://do.davebsd.com/ ) for an
example. I tried gnome-launch-box but it doesn't even come close.
Maybe we can add (and improve) gnome-launch-box?

On 12/03/2010 01:32 AM, Allan E. Registos wrote:

Agree. Using additional methods of launchings apps would mean
something is lacking in the default environment.


____________________________________________________________________
From: "Stefano Facchini"<[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, December 2, 2010 11:18:41 PM
Subject: Re: Suggestion: Make a dock from application icons in
overview

I am using docky, too, for this purpose! But this should be a
built-in
feature of the shell, it is a much more consistent experience. For
example, with docky I have to setup application launchers twice, as
well
as other customizations.


Il giorno gio, 02/12/2010 alle 07.10 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna ha
scritto:


On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Allan E. Registos
<[email protected]>  wrote:
         +1 to this idea, less mouse gesture, I don't have to go to
         activities, just a quick mouse hover to the left edge of

the

         screen.
         In addition if there is an accidental mouse hover to the

left,

         the slide-in effect must be quick enough to avoid

distraction

         while working on a task.

I've been using docky for this purpose.  Which seems to be doing

what

you are asking for.  In addition it also tells me what apps are

open

which if you have a slide in and slide out mechanism it doesn't

allow

for.  (unless of course there is an option to turn it off)  I'm
hesitant to ask for such a feature when docky already seems to

fill

this space.

sri










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         From: [email protected]
         To: "Stefano Facchini"<[email protected]>
         Cc: "Shell-List"<[email protected]>
         Sent: Wednesday, December 1, 2010 11:01:52 AM
         Subject: Re: Suggestion: Make a dock from application

icons in

         overview



         +1


         This is exactly what I suggested in a very recent

discussion

         about minimizing windows in gnome-shell.


         This is a extremely simple change that adds the much

needed*

         taskbar to gnome shell.


         *See my post in "Minimizing Windows violates mental model"

for

         details.

         On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Stefano Facchini
         <[email protected]>  wrote:
                 Hi,
                 maybe this is an already known idea, but it could

be

                 possible to make a
                 dock with the list of application icons on the

left

                 side of overview
                 mode. When the mouse touches the left edge of the
                 screen, the list of
                 icons slides in, just like a taskbar, without
                 activating the exposé for
                 windows. I'd really like to see something similar

in

                 gnome-shell!

                 What do you think?



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