Hi, As I said before I don't like the new "spatial memory" idea. It may work if the computer is used and administered by a single person. But it is clearly a bad idea if the computer is shared or administered by another person.
The whole idea is that the system starts without any applications at all and the user will install an remember where the application was placed. Pitfalls: 0) Many applications have natural categories (loffice is an office aplication). Why not start from there and let the user change the categories if he sees the necessity instead of forcing the user the make a decision after each application is installed. 1) Many users don't install applications, their machines are administered by somebody else (husband/wife, mother/father, son that knows about computers, TI sector, etc). So they won't be incrementally installing applications. They will receive a computer with many applications preloaded and will have to learn their position (or reposition them) all at once. 2) Many computer are shared by people with different necessities. For example in my place I am an Appl. Mathematician with a strong Computer Science background. so I use lots of development, Mathematics and Engineering tools. My wife uses mostly office+browser, my sons use browser+games+educational programs. So our computers have many applications installed naturally. Many of those applications are not known by other users (my son does not know what emacs or Lyx is for). So for them it will be hard to decide what are their proper position in their system. One of the main problems is that it seems from reading the web page if one user can "import" the organization made by another user to use it as a starting point. That would help to attenuate the problems described above. I hope that gnome shell users think about this. best, Paulo 2012/6/23 Contempo <cont3...@gmail.com>: > This: http://worldofgnome.org/the-reasons-behind-gnome-shells-new-face/ > > It looks like a really simple interaction. Some days ago i mail (here) a > similar idea for Unity dash interaction. > > Any thought about gnome 3.6 UI compared with Unity dash? > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Paulo José da Silva e Silva Professor Associado, Dep. de Ciência da Computação (Associate Professor, Computer Science Dept.) Universidade de São Paulo - Brazil e-mail: pjssi...@ime.usp.br Web: http://www.ime.usp.br/~pjssilva -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
