Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-16 Thread Allan Day
Trond Hasle Amundsen wrote: > Christopher Meng writes: > >> Somewhat funny that many users even don't know this tweak tool and ask >> everywhere about this.. > > I always found it odd that gnome-tweak-tool even exists.. some > functionality are found in the system settings, some in > gnome-tw

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-15 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > I think settings should be made available to the user, but not in a > half-assed "tweak tool". That's what the settings dialog is for. > We understand that is your view point and it is fine to hold that view point and as a KDE maintain

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
Martin Sourada wrote: > I don't think that's what he is trying to tell. I believe it's: either > expose the setting, or don't have the setting. The middle way is > broken, be it semi-official tweak tool or even worse "advanced" tab. > Especially if the tweak tool is for settings that are expected t

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-15 Thread Martin Sourada
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:31:42 -0800 Adam Williamson wrote: > Kevin, you work on a desktop which sufficiently represents your > views. I think we're all aware that if we want fifteen thousand > settings in the control panel, we can run KDE. Do you really believe > you're going to convince the GNOME

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On 10/02/13 06:03 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: Olav Vitters wrote: This has been addressed various times. In brief: Advanced buttons do not work. They'll be clicked every time. Tweak tool provides a different guarantee of stability. For instance: if you change an option in System Settings and it resu

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:20:04PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Olav Vitters wrote: > > PS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweak_UI > > It was written by one individual employee and released as an unsupported > tool. It'd have been a third-party tool if the author didn't happen to be an > M$ emplo

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-12 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:18:09PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Olav Vitters wrote: > > I don't get why you reply to me. It seems anything people do is just > > bad. > > > > No tweak tool: bad > > A tweak tool: bad > > Strawman… > > What I actually mean is: > Completely hidden or absent settings

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-12 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Sun, 2013-02-10 at 15:03 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Olav Vitters wrote: > > This has been addressed various times. In brief: Advanced buttons do not > > work. They'll be clicked every time. Tweak tool provides a different > > guarantee of stability. For instance: if you change an option in Sys

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-11 Thread Kevin Kofler
I wrote: > Olav Vitters wrote: >> I don't get why you reply to me. It seems anything people do is just >> bad. >> >> No tweak tool: bad >> A tweak tool: bad > > Strawman… > > What I actually mean is: > Completely hidden or absent settings ("no tweak tool"): bad > Settings hidden in a tweak tool

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-11 Thread Kevin Kofler
Olav Vitters wrote: > PS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweak_UI It was written by one individual employee and released as an unsupported tool. It'd have been a third-party tool if the author didn't happen to be an M$ employee. Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproje

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-11 Thread Kevin Kofler
Olav Vitters wrote: > I don't get why you reply to me. It seems anything people do is just > bad. > > No tweak tool: bad > A tweak tool: bad Strawman… What I actually mean is: Completely hidden or absent settings ("no tweak tool"): bad Settings hidden in a tweak tool: bad Settings available and

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 01:30:29PM +0100, Mario Torre wrote: > This argument doesn't really work, either. Care to provide any argumentation? At the moment if that were true, I'd could just refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pot_calling_the_kettle_black But actually I explained myself. You

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 01:30:02PM +0100, Mario Torre wrote: > Il giorno dom, 10/02/2013 alle 14.47 +0100, Olav Vitters ha scritto: > > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 01:28:54PM +0100, Trond Hasle Amundsen wrote: > > > Christopher Meng writes: > > > > > > > Somewhat funny that many users even don't know

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-11 Thread Mario Torre
Il giorno dom, 10/02/2013 alle 14.47 +0100, Olav Vitters ha scritto: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 01:28:54PM +0100, Trond Hasle Amundsen wrote: > > Christopher Meng writes: > > > > > Somewhat funny that many users even don't know this tweak tool and ask > > > everywhere about this.. > > > > I a

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-11 Thread Mario Torre
Il giorno lun, 11/02/2013 alle 11.12 +0100, Olav Vitters ha scritto: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 03:03:44PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Having a separate "tweak tool" is a lame workaround for lack of settings in > > the official tools. The only reason such "tweak tools" exist on proprietary > >

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:12:32AM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 03:03:44PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Having a separate "tweak tool" is a lame workaround for lack of settings in > > the official tools. The only reason such "tweak tools" exist on proprietary > > operati

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-11 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 03:03:44PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Having a separate "tweak tool" is a lame workaround for lack of settings in > the official tools. The only reason such "tweak tools" exist on proprietary > operating systems is because the proprietary companies don't want to > offic

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-10 Thread Trond Hasle Amundsen
Olav Vitters writes: >>> Somewhat funny that many users even don't know this tweak tool and ask >>> everywhere about this.. >> >> I always found it odd that gnome-tweak-tool even exists.. some >> functionality are found in the system settings, some in >> gnome-tweak-tool. If you ask me, gnom

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-10 Thread Kevin Kofler
Olav Vitters wrote: > This has been addressed various times. In brief: Advanced buttons do not > work. They'll be clicked every time. Tweak tool provides a different > guarantee of stability. For instance: if you change an option in System > Settings and it results in a bug it must be fixed asap. A

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-10 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 01:28:54PM +0100, Trond Hasle Amundsen wrote: > Christopher Meng writes: > > > Somewhat funny that many users even don't know this tweak tool and ask > > everywhere about this.. > > I always found it odd that gnome-tweak-tool even exists.. some > functionality are fou

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces

2013-02-10 Thread Trond Hasle Amundsen
Christopher Meng writes: > Somewhat funny that many users even don't know this tweak tool and ask > everywhere about this.. I always found it odd that gnome-tweak-tool even exists.. some functionality are found in the system settings, some in gnome-tweak-tool. If you ask me, gnome-tweak-tool

Re: Gnome-shell workspaces (Was Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop)

2013-02-10 Thread Christopher Meng
On Sunday, February 10, 2013, Samuel Sieb wrote: > As an aside, when I first saw gnome-shell, I thought it would be horrible to use. But after a while of using it, finding gnome-tweak-tool, and installing a couple of extensions, I've been quite happy with it. I actually think it's more keyboard

Gnome-shell workspaces (Was Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop)

2013-02-09 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 02/09/2013 03:34 AM, Ian Malone wrote: 1. I no longer use workspaces to manage different tasks unless there are lots of windows and then I sometimes overflow onto 2. This is because they're less useful as you now can't switch without going to the activities view and they aren't segregated well