The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience [LWN.net]

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 15, 2011 21:03 UTC (Tue) by jjmarin (subscriber, #53201)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience by jcm
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

I think GNOME shell is far from the Windows 95 type "Start Button" logic you mention. I'm been using GNOME shell for a while and the "hot corner" is nothing to do with the "Start Button"

About the dual monitor user case, take into account that the design has evolved in the development process and this case is difficult to polish and put into practice until the design has been stabilized and marked as definitive. BTW, there is a lot of work done on this area (take a look in bugzilla.gnome.org) and I hope it will be released ASAP.

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The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 16, 2011 0:40 UTC (Wed) by elanthis (guest, #6227) [Link] (1 responses)

Nope. The hot corner is just 5x as annoying for anyone using a laptop with a wireless mouse where the mouse happens to get bumped around a lot. (Like, say, when it's on the armrest of your couch.) And when your trackpad is not ideal because it's located in the "your palm always hits it" space or you have an ASUS where the touchpad being enabled causes the keyboard to miss keystrokes, or you just happen to prefer a mouse over a trackpad.

Win7 has an option to show desktop on a hot spot in the bottom right, which is on by default. It's infuriatingly obnoxious on my laptop (I don't notice it at all on my desktop, of course) and I have disabled it. It's nice and logical where it's at, too: right-click on the show desktop button in the bottom right and unclick "peek at desktop." (The name of the option is horrible/confusing, but the location is the first place I thought to look.)

GNOME 3 on the other hand is just going to remain infuriatingly unusable for me on my laptop until that hotspot behavior gets turned into an option.

The corners work so well as a hotspot for desktop users specifically because it's so easy for a pointer to end up there. When your pointer is not always moving due to user desire, however, that pointer-gravity works against you rather than for you.

The Grumpy Editor's GNOME 3 experience

Posted Mar 16, 2011 1:46 UTC (Wed) by sramkrishna (subscriber, #72628) [Link]

How about putting it in a bugzilla for that? Put it in gnome-shell component. If you can't, I can do it for you, but at least this way you can track it.

I think that's a valid concern.