On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 10:06 -0600, Mike Chambers 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. You can also use the Windows key to get the overview (that's changeable in GSettings), and use Alt-Tab or Alt-key-above-Tab to switch between window groups (applications) and within groups. > > > > > > 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. > > 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. This area isn't quite done designing I believe, and your findings pretty much match that of other early users and developers. I'd expect it to get fixed in due time. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
