On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 23:24 +0800, Allan Caeg wrote: > Hello, > > > Just wanted to share a personal experience with GNOME Shell. One of > its new and unique attributes is not having the window list or any > sort of persistent widget that shows running apps or opened windows. > This has benefits, in theory, like helping the user focus on the > foreground task. > > > It's just worth noting that one of its potential downsides is it > violates the user's mental model, which makes it undesirable, even if > it *may* help increase productivity. With a window list, it's clear to > the user where the window goes when it's minimized and how to show it > again. In GNOME Shell, the only clear way to tell if a window is > minimized is to check if it can't be seen in the workspace, but it's > shown in the Overview or Window Switcher (alt+tab). Teling which > windows are minimized or not may not have real benefits, but it may be > too disorienting for users.
I agree - I rarely minimize windows so it's not really an issue for me, but when I have done it in GNOME shell (usually accidentally), it does feel a little odd. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
