Re: Gnome objectives

2010-11-25 Thread Alessandro Crismani
Il giorno gio, 25/11/2010 alle 12.53 +0530, dE . ha scritto: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Alessandro Crismani > wrote: > > Il giorno mer, 24/11/2010 alle 20.17 +0530, dE . ha scritto: > >> > Alt+Tab for window switching is definately better than anything else > >> > out there. It groups sim

Re: Gnome objectives

2010-11-25 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 12:53 +0530, dE . wrote: > Till now I don't see any real reason for developing gnome-shell -- it > appears to be a complete waist of effort. it may be wasted, but it's not *your* effort. and you don't get to decide what people should be developing in a free software project

Re: Gnome objectives

2010-11-25 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:08:32AM +, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 12:53 +0530, dE . wrote: > > > Till now I don't see any real reason for developing gnome-shell -- it > > appears to be a complete waist of effort. > > it may be wasted, but it's not *your* effort. Discussion

Re: Behavior of Minimizing Windows Violates Mental Model

2010-11-25 Thread Justin Edwards
I think one option would be to add an icon at the top bar of the minimized application. My vote is to bring back an 'option' for task bar, even if it's not a gnome panel. The option to have a taskbar vs activity menu would be good. Both could be auto hidden. Justin Edwards TeleLanguage Inc. Netwo

Re: Gnome objectives

2010-11-25 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:53:36 +0530, you wrote: >Till now I don't see any real reason for developing gnome-shell -- it >appears to be a complete waist of effort. All enhancements that people >are liking here can be easily done in the classic desktop. Gnome Shell is necessary, trying to bolt on the

Re: A few suggestions

2010-11-25 Thread Giovanni Campagna
Il giorno gio, 25/11/2010 alle 19.44 +0530, dE . ha scritto: > Finally the doc is complete, the devs/designers might like to have a look. Ok, first of all, despite the tag on my bugzilla account, I'm not a gnome-shell developer, rather a contributor, I have no official stance on what will/will not

Re: Gnome objectives

2010-11-25 Thread Allan E. Registos
I have a reply to DE not to offer impossible suggestions, and what he provides here are impossible and often not good for the devs to read methinks. As noted below, discussion is fine, but I think _not_ with unrealistic scenarios like suggesting to developers to switch to QT and join with the KD