On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Emmanuele Bassi <eba...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2011-03-07 at 10:29, Robert Park wrote: >> On a side note, I was recently annoyed when I tried out v0.0.6 of the >> GNOME ISO (from gnome3.org) and I was not able to activate the clock >> menu by clicking on the topmost row of pixels above the clock applet, >> I had to move the mouse down in order to click. That's a failure to >> implement Fitts Law. > > this was a bug that has been fixed by Clutter 1.6.8, which has been > released today. > > the bug was due to a rounding error of floating point values on large > stage sizes - such has high resolution displays or multi-monitor setups.
I'm glad to hear that's fixed. Clutter is so cool ;-) I've played a bit more with GNOME Shell today, and I really like it. I feel as though 95% of the people who are complaining about it fall into the category of "I don't like things that I'm not used to and I don't enjoy learning." Gnome Shell is amazing and I can't wait for it to be more widely available (yeah, I can play with a liveCD or whatever, but I just want a default Fedora install to have Gnome Shell for me...) Anyways, I really liked: * Dragging titlebars to maximize/tile. I've never seen a sexier implementation of a tiling windowmanager. I think perhaps if you drag a window to the left or right edge while there is already a maximized window on that workspace, the maximized window could shrink down to tile both windows together. that seems like it would make more sense than to have one window 50% covering a maximized window. But still, the idea is really solid and the UI apart from that is great. * the automatic add/remove of workspaces. That's so brilliant, I can't even believe I haven't seen it done before. I remember way back when I was new to the concept of workspaces, being a bit put off by the awkwardness of having to decide ahead of time how many I'd need and how to organize them. This new way is just so _effortless_... if you need more workspaces, they just appear as you use them. I love it! * alt+tab switching between windows on all workspaces, that makes it harder to forget about things hidden on other workspaces, definitely a nice touch. * how rigid the top panel is. I'm sick of customizing panels when they should Just Work in the first place, and Gnome Shell Just Works. It just gets out of my way as fast as possible and lets me focus on doing work, not on screwing around with panel settings. I remember way, way back in the early days of GNOME2, before they'd implemented the 'lock to panel' checkbox, things in the panel tended to forget where they were placed, and I remember constantly being frustrated by things sliding around, particularly when logging in (sometimes when you log in and gnome-panel launches, things would be in the wrong place). I've even seen that problem crop up from time to time on more recent versions of GNOME, and it's terrible. I'm so glad to see gnome-panel being killed off. I'm confident that the items on the top panel in gnome shell will stay put across reboots, and that's great. One complaint that I often see about GNOME Shell is how you have to mouse all the way to the top left corner and then all the way back to the right edge to get at the workspace switcher. I think people should just learn to press the 'windows' key with their left hand (without letting go of the mouse in their right hand) to access the Activities screen. That eliminiates almost all of the mouse movement necessary, and is way faster. I can tell I will definitely be leaning on that key whenever I want to rapidly change from one window to another, and I'm very happy with how that works. I for one am excited for the release of GNOME3. I'm getting sick of the overwhelmingly large amount of options provided by compiz, and how utterly difficult and time consuming it is to get compiz into a state where it's subtle, usable, and not garish. Thanks for reading ;-) -- http://exolucere.ca _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
