From: "appi2...@gmail.com" <appi2...@gmail.com> To: sbr...@gtfservices.com Date: Tuesday 30 November 2010 > To me, the overview is great for organizing > windows, but for simple window switching, there should be a simple way > that isn't like Taz came through your desktop and threw your windows > around (albeit in > an organized fashion ;) ).
Leaving the funny comment aside, I agree with this previous email. If taskbars are indeed such a devil's invention, then why is it that so many "successful" window managers (successful in terms of user base, user adoption and user satisfaction) have one, albeit in very different forms? Do not take me wrong, I am all in favor of reinventing the UI and I stand in awe at the job of the Gnome-Shell devs and designers, in coming up with something radically different. But it begs the question, since as the previous email stated, it has been asked nearly once a month: is this the <b>right</b> way? Let me be blunt here: vanilla, stock GNOME-2.x taskbar is not of much use. Yes, it provides a list of applications, but it's not much different from a Windows 95 taskbar (no harm intended). It doesn't have to be that way. Taskbars need not be such a horrible and undesirable thing. Take a look at Smooth-Tasks or any dock implementation of a taskbar. Heck, even E17 (a radical WM if there is one) doesn't have one *in a stock configuration* (you can install the taskbar e_module if you want to), but it does provide the iBox where the minimized apps go. I haven't been following up the development of Gnome-Shell recently so I don't know if anything of this sort is indeed planned, but if I had to give an advice: don't close yourselves to this idea. Use the same radical thought you put into designing the shell and reinvent the taskbar too. Even if it does not come in a stock configuration, don't be shy of including it as an optional extension, with some level of support other than "you're on your own if you use this" Just my two cents. Cheers Juan Manuel _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
