Hello, I am new to gnome list and have not browsed its archive. Forgive me if things I mention have already been discussed. Here is a little feedback from a daily gnome user. Yesterday I tried once again to replace metacity and panel with gnome-shell. Today I do not, as I feel less productive with shell. Here are two choices I do not understand in gnome 3. How do we launch applications? In gnome 2, using mouse only, we can launch applications through structured and intuitive menus. In gnome 3, only recent applications are launchable with the mouse. One must know the names for the remaining applications, and type in the first letters using keyboard. How do we switch application? vs How do we switch workspace? Switching workspace is ignored by many people. This is not a problem to me. In gnome 2 switching workspace can be triggered by 1 (mouse) actions: clicking in the applet. In gnome 3 a lot of attention is put on adding/removing workspaces, on moving windows from one workspace to another. Do people change their applications from one workspace to another so often? (Is it relevant to have these not so useful tasks executed manually?) I would rather focus on launching/unhiding applications consistently (by application generic names for example, like gnome-do does it launching "text-editor" instead of "gedit"), and maybe have them presented in an easy way for showing windows not currently visible to the user. Switching Application in gnome 3 (by clicking on the application screenshot resized in its workspace) is less intuitive to me than having some sort of window-list. (I like window-picker-applet for instance). I think having a workspace approach is less universal than a application-centric one. Regards, Chris _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
