I have thought this at times also, perhaps its of failure of the gnome-shell UX, when I tend to use synapse for launching applications most of the time.
I would be nice to be able to get the application launcher without entering overview! On 23/06/12 04:00, Alexandre Kaspar wrote: > Hi, > > I've been with Gnome-Shell since it's early time before 3.0, but am now using > it > daily on Fedora 17 (and previously 16), and I start to find the overall thing > a bit painful to use, > mostly because of one flaw which is the animation when going from the default > view to the overview, which I use a lot for search (and application startup). > > I find the zoom out/in animation just painful to see every time. > It takes time, it's not always smooth, and I just don't want to look at it. > It seems like a waste of my time, plus some more energy to focus on what is > where > and why it's going to where it goes. > > I saw ubuntu's hub system and the search which looks far much more > user-friendly, in that > it doesn't take you out of the normal work. You keep the things where they > are, but > you can search things, and have access to the dash on the left. > > I wish there was a way to have a shorter overview system. Does it exist ? Is > it possible ? > > i.e. <Super> would just trigger a basic overview without the layout part (no > zoom-out, nor workspace display) > so that I can focus on what I'm doing and not the layout (which I find too > superficial). > and then allow a full overview like today with <Super>+ some other key (Alt > maybe ?) > > I really find it painful to have to see this animation every single time I > access the dash or the search. > Of course, I could just use <Alt>+F2 to trigger the command prompt, but > there's no feedback with this one. > And I like the overview search, because I can do things with it, such as math > computations, or unit conversion, or document viewing, or > websearches. > > Gnome 3.4 brought a great new layout management where we can put things in > between the current workspaces, > and I find it great. But I just cannot stand to see it every single time. > Disabling animation doesn't help, because I want my current windows to stay > where they are, just have a smaller overview > which would be on top of what is already present, and not an overview as now, > where what is present > just gets scrambled in the middle of the screen. > > Thanks for any solution or pointing me to what I should look for. > Alexandre Kaspar > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
