GNOME works really well with a keyboard only. You can start and switch
apps very easily with the keyboard
"super + typepartofname + enter" ...
Isn't that for launching a new instance of an app?
I often have 2 or 3 windows that I'm actively working with. That's a
small enough number that my brain is able to remember where they are in
the stacking order so Alt+Tab works nicely for switching. Actually
Alt+Tab works pretty well with the alternate-tab extension. Except that
closing windows, launching of new windows and switching virtual desktops
seems to throw everything off.
But no, having to type part of the name of a window takes significantly
more time and requires significantly more hand movement (my left hand
usually lives right over the Alt and Tab keys, which also happens to be
near Alt+F4 and Ctrl+D which takes care of closing most windows). And
also requires a lot more brain power, since if I have an editor, a
terminal and a web browser open, I already subconsciously know how many
times I need to hit the Tab key before I will end up on the window that
I want, but thinking of the name of the program is a lot more work.
And no you do *not* need a touchscreen for anything. Repeating that
does not make it true.
My comments about touchscreens were more about the large amounts of
empty space in some places (makes it easier to poke things with a
finger) and the drag-to-remove-screen-blanker (which is ONLY helpful if
you have a touchscreen).
But there are a bunch of other "polish" things that I think also need to be
fixed. For example:
* There are at least half a dozen Gnome Bugzillas that I've come across
around focus and window stacking issues - and I think I've encountered every
one of them. This is maddening. For someone who uses the keyboard as much as
possible, this makes the system almost unusable
What are those focus and stacking issues? You have to name them
otherwise we can't discuss / solve them.
I'll start a new thread.
* The default theme makes it difficult to easily distinguish the Focused
window from all other windows - again, maddening when you have lots of
windows spread across multiple very high resolution monitors. Especially
with all the window focus/stacking issues
Really? At least for gtk3 apps the whole unfocsued window dims
("backdrop") which makes it very cleary shown as unfocsued.
Again no idea what your "focus / stacking issues are"
I'm not saying there is no distinction, I'm saying that it's not a very
big distinction (i.e. there needs to be more contrast) so it can be hard
to pick out the difference when you have a lot of screen real estate in
front of you (i.e. multiple large high resolution monitors) and many
windows spread around. If I remember correctly, both KDE's default theme
and Windows Aero suffer from the same problems. But I'm trying to use
the out-of-the-box defaults since I know they will be better supported
(i.e. cross-toolkit theming, support for new widgets, less buggy,
etc...) whereas in KDE (which is already non-default) I would have
changed the theme and in Windows I would have disabled Aero (active
windows have a blue titlebar, inactive get gray, which is fantastic).
-Adam Batkin
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