Written by yookoala the 13 Jul 09 at 13:21.

I didn't make it. I saw it here:

http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/A+Gnome-Shell+Variant?action=content &content=108332

I didn't make it. I saw it here: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/A+Gnome-Shell+Variant?action=content&content=108332 <a href="http://www.gnome-look.org/CONTENT/content-pre1/108332-1.jpg"><img src="http://www.gnome-look.org/CONTENT/content-pre1/108332-1.jpg" width="600" /></a> <a href="http://www.gnome-look.org/CONTENT/content-pre1/108332-2.jpg"><img src="http://www.gnome-look.org/CONTENT/content-pre2/108332-2.jpg" width="600" /></a>

Written by jimleko the 13 Jul 09 at 15:04.

Simply having tasks available to you will simply limit the user. This may be fine for a 40-year old soccer mom who just browses and web and checks her email, but for one who wants to play any sort of game or launch a service such as Ubuntu One, that isn't covered.

If in the tasks menu there is a new task, "Launch an Application", that would bring up a window that lists all of your applications in the categories we are already familiar with, I think this could be a very well thoguht out design as a whole for Gnome 3.0.

Simply having tasks available to you will simply limit the user. This may be fine for a 40-year old soccer mom who just browses and web and checks her email, but for one who wants to play any sort of game or launch a service such as Ubuntu One, that isn't covered. If in the tasks menu there is a new task, "Launch an Application", that would bring up a window that lists all of your applications in the categories we are already familiar with, I think this could be a very well thoguht out design as a whole for Gnome 3.0.

Written by JohnBaptist the 6 Oct 09 at 15:14.

The current compiz/gnome-panel interface that we have now is actually very flexible. I think it suffers not from lack of features, but from lack of well-chosen defaults.

Compiz in particular, for example, offers a wide variety of powerful usability features, like Expo and Scale and Ring Switcher and Desktop Cube, but they either aren't enabled without fiddling around in CompizConfig, or else there is no obvious way to figure out how to activate them. I think we should re-think the default options for the window manager and make it clear through the Apperance control panel how the user can take advantage of these features.

Likewise, gnome-panel is capable of arranging your desktop in a variety of ways. I think the "menu on top, running tasks on the bottom" motif isn't bad, but it's been done to death, and there are better, more compact, more flexible ways to arrange the default desktop. To fix this requires not new code, but good user interface design.

In any case, Gnome Shell is going in exactly the wrong direction, by making interaction with the system less and less self-explanatory and transparent.

The current compiz/gnome-panel interface that we have now is actually very flexible. I think it suffers not from lack of features, but from lack of well-chosen defaults. Compiz in particular, for example, offers a wide variety of powerful usability features, like Expo and Scale and Ring Switcher and Desktop Cube, but they either aren't enabled without fiddling around in CompizConfig, or else there is no obvious way to figure out how to activate them. I think we should re-think the default options for the window manager and make it clear through the Apperance control panel how the user can take advantage of these features. Likewise, gnome-panel is capable of arranging your desktop in a variety of ways. I think the "menu on top, running tasks on the bottom" motif isn't bad, but it's been done to death, and there are better, more compact, more flexible ways to arrange the default desktop. To fix this requires not new code, but good user interface design. In any case, Gnome Shell is going in exactly the wrong direction, by making interaction with the system less and less self-explanatory and transparent.