Mathieu Bridon <bochecha <at> fedoraproject.org> writes:
[..snip..] and thanks to my incredibly poor focus [..snip..]
Oh, and I don't think I am a "Joe Average" or an
"Aunt Tillie": I'm a
Fedora package maintainer, Python developer, a release engineer for an
in-house Linux distribution at $dayjob, and I spend most of my time in a
terminal.
Hopefully that will clear the myth that Gnome 3 is not for power users /
developers.
If you have so incredibly poor focus, how do you do all these things? ;-)
I think you're being overly modest - you sound more like a very capable guy than
a person with poor focus to me. Gnome 2/3 notwithstanding.
In terms of various notifications, obviously, I have no idea what kind of things
you're logged into daily and what kind of apps you have open. In any event, I do
not see how this is in any way related to usefulness/uselessness of overview.
You should be able turn notification off with or without overview - that is not
in question. Ditto any kind of taskbar (although I do not see why you'd want
that - it is usually an app you've opened yourself that's asking for input). The
fact that some apps nudge the taskbar when they have a new message instead of
using notifications is just a bug.
Not one person that is happy with Gnome 3 has been able to explain to me why
overview is _required_ for any of these things to work. In the absence of that
and believe me, with all due respect, I do not see why I have to go through two
view switches and expose animation just to start an app.
--
Bojan