On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 13:21 -0400, Jesse Hutton wrote: > My main point of contention with that rational is that not all windows > are part of any particular task for a user. Would a music player be > part of a specific task? What about an instant messenger or IRC > client? Even for email, I can easily think of use cases where you > would want to associate the application with a given task in one > instance (maybe you're communicating with somebody about a particular > project), and then a different one in another. In other words, the use > cases for email span a larger scope than a single task.
Yeah, this is certainly my biggest problem with the Shell design. It's probably taken to an extreme, for me, because I can't separate tasks *at all*: any task I do, related to work or personal use or anything else, uses the same few windows - mail client, browser, chat client, text editor, terminal. Sometimes I have a music player too, and as you say, this clearly spans all tasks. I have yet to find any way I can possibly split these into multiple workspaces that makes any sense, so I simply can't use workspaces the way Shell intends. I could try and split different web pages between different 'types' in different Firefox windows, I guess, but it feels like it'd be more work than it would be worth. I don't really find it a problem and I just keep everything in one workspace, but I certainly feel like this aspect of the Shell design doesn't do anything for me. -- 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
