The GNOME project has done some incredible work, especially in regards to software collections. Each bit of software has a clear purpose, and performs this exceedingly well. Where GNOME falls down, scraping it's knees on the pavement in it's rush to perfection however, is in the area most important - the window manager and desktop interaction.
Have you got a laptop touchpad handy? Good, try this; scroll 5 pages of apps in the GNOME app drawer with the touchpad scroll function. It's a twitch game, move your fingers just a fraction to far and instead of page 2, you're on page 9000. I see three solutions to this particular problem. 1: create an option for line based scrolling 2: make the touchpad scroll distance (how far you move your fingers) a division of how many pages there are. 3: an option to use scrollbar based app drawer, same as what the folders use. I don't pretend to know what would be required for option 2, I'm still very much a newbie when it comes to delving in to GNOME sources, but option 1 seems much more feasible, and will probably work much better in the long run, or perhaps option 3 is less work? While we're on the app drawer subject, given that it is a similar concept to many Android app screens, you'd think an easy way to create groups of apps would be logical right? The process to do so at this time is rather convoluted, requiring some tedious commandline-fu. A simple right-click menu with `add to group` as a command would suffice, preferably a context sensitive one so that if you're adding to a non-existant group then it will create it. And the last niggle about the app drawer? Configurable rows/colums/icon size, this would be a massive boon to all users, along with the suggestions above. Tiling! Everyone's favourite subject. No, no, it doesn't need to be complex, it only needs to be functional. Windows beat GNOME to a critical feature; resizable split proportion. As in, drag the middle of two split windows left or right to resize the split. We need this, desperately. What's a use case scenario? How about having a note taking application open alongside a browser window, right away you're going to have issues as the default 50/50 split plays havoc with most webpages, the ideal seems to be 40/60, slightly larger for the browser. If dynamic resizing isn't possible then presets might be a poor but adequate solution. I'm a computer science student, and I'm slowly getting acquainted with the GNOME codebase. Like most large projects, reading the code the first time is overwhelming and requires a hefty time investment, one I don't have much of to give. Any input in to what I've talked about above would be great, especially regarding the app drawer scrolling. Cheers, Luke.
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