On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 00:43 +0200, Florian Müllner wrote: > 2011/7/9 Tassilo Horn <tass...@member.fsf.org> > Well, not that bad. But still it needs three actions to pause > the music > player: (1) open overview, (2) activate/unhide player, (3) > press pause > in it. With the usual system tray (aka notification area with > icon > abuse), it's usually just right-click > pause. > > It is not meant as a way to give quick access to applications - that > should be provided by notifications (e.g. like Rhythmbox does it).
I think the specific case we're discussing in this thread - music - is an interesting one that could merit some specific discussion. Controlling music playback as a 'system' function - via a notification area icon, usually - seems to be a pretty popular method, and this doesn't really work as well in GNOME 3 as it did in GNOME 2, I think most would agree. So you could say we should just add it as a system function, but then, there are plenty of people who don't play music at all, and this would be one more annoyance for them alongside the equally-often-useless accessibility and bluetooth icons. So...I don't have a solution, I'm just pointing this up; there seems to be a gap (that could be defined as 'quick, outside-current-task interactions with subsets of the functionality of running applications') between the 'system area' and the notification system which GNOME 3 just isn't covering very well at present. Is there a strategy for this? Do we want people to figure it out with extensions? Do we really want to use (some would say abuse) permanent notifications for this? Does someone have a smart solution that hasn't previously been suggested? Do we just throw up our hands and say 'that's not what GNOME 3 is for'? -- 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
