Was this randomly generated from a context-free grammar? If not, someone should write a CFG for metacity complaints. Hours of amusement write there.
-Rob On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 09:12 +0000, Dennis Heuer wrote: > Hello, > > don't want to shout about metacity, have lost fun on it. However, it will > never warm my heart. One thing, though, is really disturbing even from the > grandma's view. Metacity manages workspaces, which is very nice but > completely undiscussed to the user and appearing like a concurrent entity (or > metaphor) to windows, the panel, and the nautilus spatial view. > > Today, I find the pager on my panel, think about what it could mean, am a bit > irritated about what it does, then find it useful but can't use it as > expected because only windows obey to it. The rest just ignores the potential > of workspaces in total. For example, I'd like to have my nautilus audio icon > on the workspace where all my audio apps reside but my nautilus email icon on > the workspace where all my office tools reside. I don't see a sense in having > all of my icons on all of my workspaces. The same with panel applets. > > Please, integrate workspaces as if they were only rooted windows, containing > further windows. This said, they should possibly be handled by nautilus > instead of by metacity. The system should behave as if there are more than > one entries to the desktop and they (really) can be configured individually, > as wished. Workspaces should not be just another metaphor but a natural part > of the one dominant metaphor (a kind of spatial desktop view). > > Regards, > > Dennis Heuer > > _______________________________________________ > Usability mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability > _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
