On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Mike Chambers <mike@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 16:20 +0100, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: >> On 02/27/2011 03:55 PM, Mike Chambers wrote: >> > >> > When in a program (Evolution for example), it seems this is the only one >> > I see in the task window/panel or whatever up top. I can't tell Firefox >> > or anything is running, unleses I click on the Activities link or >> > control tab. >> >> I think this is sort of intentional. If I understand the way this is >> supposed to work correctly then you are not supposed to care if Firefox is >> already running but instead simply click on it in your favorites and if an >> instance is already running it will be brought into focus or a new instance >> is started. >> Also you don't need to click on "Activities" but can simply move the mouse >> to the upper left corner to open the favorites. While this takes some >> getting used to I think it makes sense. Simply "throw" you mouse into the >> upper left corner and then click on Firefox. > > OK, got the corner thing with the mouse, seems to work. Still hate it. > Seems more work to do...move mouse, click on icon, then start. Instead > of just going to workspace/icon or whatever and clicking on it. Give it some time, it is different than what you are used to, after lets say a week it will feel natural to you (up to the point that you will throw your mouse into the upper left corner on other OSes ;) ). >> > >> > I used to be able to hover my mouse over the time and at least it would >> > tell me the date instead of having to click on it just to see it. >> >> I think the general problem here is that with the advent of tablet and >> other touchscreen driven devices the whole hover mechanic just doesn't work >> at all anymore. On the other hand I noticed that when I move the mouse over >> an icon at the bottom right corner the icon slides to the side and reveal a >> label for that icon. So there the hover concept seems to be still alive. >> This is a problem though as apparently you cannot click that label: >> 1. Update icon appears >> 2. You want to click on it and move the mouse over it >> 3. The icon moves away from your pointer revealing the label >> 4. Clicking no longer works since the label is not clickable >> 5. You move the mouse over to the new icon position >> 6. If you overshoot the icon again slides away from you pointer => continue >> at 2. >> 7. If you don't overshoot you are finally able to do what you wanted to do >> in the first place: click that icon. This is a bug see: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636930 > Yep, experienced same thing with the bottom right icons. But as you > said, hypocritical when can't do it at the top over time/date/etc..but > in the bottom it's set to, yet have to hit it at right spot for it to > work. It is not hypocritical as *you* made up the reason for the tooltips not being there (hover is used in a lot of different places in the shell). -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
