On the basis that you need to laugh every so often. http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/AppletsTransition:
Desktop design copouts
Then there are applets that are about making it marginally faster to do things that should be obvious and fast to do without an applet to do them. If these are useful, we've misdesigned.
Connect to a Server... Disk Mounter Lock Screen Log Out... Run Application... Search for Files... Shutdown..
On Mon September 26 2011, Ian Malone wrote:
On the basis that you need to laugh every so often. http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/AppletsTransition:
Desktop design copouts
Then there are applets that are about making it marginally faster to do things that should be obvious and fast to do without an applet to do them. If these are useful, we've misdesigned.
Connect to a Server... Disk Mounter Lock Screen Log Out... Run Application... Search for Files... Shutdown..
Seriously... Disk Mounter, log out, run application, lock screen, command- line. Those are not "core" apps???? Sheesh!
On 09/26/2011 08:48 AM, John Aldrich wrote:
On Mon September 26 2011, Ian Malone wrote:
On the basis that you need to laugh every so often. http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/AppletsTransition:
Desktop design copouts
Then there are applets that are about making it marginally faster to do things that should be obvious and fast to do without an applet to do them. If these are useful, we've misdesigned.
Connect to a Server... Disk Mounter Lock Screen Log Out... Run Application... Search for Files... Shutdown..Seriously... Disk Mounter, log out, run application, lock screen, command- line. Those are not "core" apps???? Sheesh!
Actually, the point is that they *are* core functions, and should therefore not need an applet to be efficient and discoverable.
Log out and lock screen are built in to the shell (account menu at top right, keyboard shortcuts). Disk mounts and Connect to Server are handled by Nautilus. Run application is also built in (Super/Activities to search applications, Alt+F2 for run prompt).
Not sure what the plan is for Search, but I think it's integrated with Nautilus, will be integrated with Documents, I wouldn't be surprised if it's integrated with the shell at some point.
That leaves Shutdown, which is a much-debated pain point. I do use the Alternative Status Menu extension gives me a normal Shut Down button[1], and there's Alt-clicking the Log Off button.
- Michael
1. I don't actually use it for the shut down button, as the Alt+Log Off behavior is fine for me. I use it for Hibernate, since my laptop lacks a dedicated Hibernate key and I haven't been able to get the Sleep key to trigger Hibernate.
On Mon September 26 2011, Michael Ekstrand wrote:
Actually, the point is that they *are* core functions, and should therefore not need an applet to be efficient and discoverable.
Ahh... Gotcha.
Log out and lock screen are built in to the shell (account menu at top right, keyboard shortcuts). Disk mounts and Connect to Server are handled by Nautilus. Run application is also built in (Super/Activities to search applications, Alt+F2 for run prompt).
Not sure what the plan is for Search, but I think it's integrated with Nautilus, will be integrated with Documents, I wouldn't be surprised if it's integrated with the shell at some point.
That leaves Shutdown, which is a much-debated pain point. I do use the Alternative Status Menu extension gives me a normal Shut Down button[1], and there's Alt-clicking the Log Off button.
- Michael
Well, I don't use Gnome myself, so it's a moot point to me. However, I think there ought to be an icon / app for a terminal window. I like the way my current DE (XFCE) has the option on the start menu for "logout" etc. I admit I don't miss the "run" option. Virtually every time I want to do something like that I just go to my open terminal window and type whatever command I need to execute (such as KCALC for calculator, etc.) I like the way some DE's give you an icon on the desktop for your removable media when it's mounted (automatically, most of the time.) Not sure how Gnome 3 will handle that. It also doubles as an "unmount" when you right-click on that icon. Sure you can just pull up Nautilus or a terminal window and handle it that way, but it's nice to have a desktop icon to unmount or access removable media. Maybe I'm just too lazy.
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