Re: Clumsy Favorites in GNOME Shell

2011-02-25 Thread Jason D. Clinton
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 08:52, drago01 wrote: > No real reason, hence fixed upstream: > http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=7ddf54c4d > Please do not land any more UI changes without release team and doc team approval. It would be nice if you involved marketing team too but this h

Re: Clumsy Favorites in GNOME Shell

2011-02-25 Thread drago01
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:07:19 -0500, Jonathan wrote: > >  * Drag'n'drop of the Favorites gnome-terminal icon seems to be _the_ >   way to start the app in a new window. However, I must be very careful >   and move the icon slowly into a "fr

Re: Clumsy Favorites in GNOME Shell

2011-02-25 Thread drago01
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:48:43 +0100, drago01 wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn > >> >> 1) When you click on it it will either start the app or switch to it's >> >> most recent window when running >> >> 2) Cl

Re: Clumsy Favorites in GNOME Shell

2011-02-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:48:43 +0100, drago01 wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn > >> 1) When you click on it it will either start the app or switch to it's > >> most recent window when running > >> 2) Click and hold or right click opens the context menu (Add/Remove to

Re: Clumsy Favorites in GNOME Shell

2011-02-25 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:07:19 -0500, Jonathan wrote: > I think the assumption is that if you already have the application open, you > can open another window easily within the application itself so it makes > more sense to put the open command in the shell on the right-click menu. > > This is cons

Re: Clumsy Favorites in GNOME Shell

2011-02-25 Thread drago01
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > On 02/25/2011 02:09 PM, drago01 wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Michael Schwendt   >> wrote: >>> In GNOME Shell, I've added a couple of apps to the "Favorites". >>> >>> Now, to start a first "xterm", I can single-click its

Re: Clumsy Favorites in GNOME Shell

2011-02-25 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 02/25/2011 02:09 PM, drago01 wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: >> In GNOME Shell, I've added a couple of apps to the "Favorites". >> >> Now, to start a first "xterm", I can single-click its icon in the list of >> Favorites. >> >> To start another one, I need to r

Re: Clumsy Favorites in GNOME Shell

2011-02-25 Thread drago01
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote: > In GNOME Shell, I've added a couple of apps to the "Favorites". > > Now, to start a first "xterm", I can single-click its icon in the list of > Favorites. > > To start another one, I need to right-click the icon to open a context > menu in

RE: Clumsy Favorites in GNOME Shell

2011-02-25 Thread Jonathan Kamens
I think the assumption is that if you already have the application open, you can open another window easily within the application itself so it makes more sense to put the open command in the shell on the right-click menu. This is consistent with the Windows 7 behavior, which I find quite intuitiv