LISA conference, Fedora, and the sysadmin use case.

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 17:17:14 +0100,
   Florian Müllner <fmuellner at gnome.org> wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> FWIW what I've observed in an unrelated usability study (one we did for
>> systemd that involved working with terminals) is in gnome-shell, when
>> you go to the overview you have a bunch of black rectangles (the
>> terminal thumbs) that all look the same, so the task of identifying
>> which black rectangle was the right one to click on to get the terminal
>> you needed was challenging.
>
>We had requests to also show application icons in addition to the
>window previews in the past[0], but of course that doesn't help the
>multiple-terminal case at all ...

I actually prefer not having an indication of which app is running, nor 
do I want previews. That way I don't need to worry about showing someone 
my screen while I'm doing a workspace switch. The key for me is consistently 
having the same app/ssh connection in the same workspace, so i don't need 
a preview to know which workspace to switch to.