Developer focus for Fedora workstation

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Fri Aug 15 14:19:22 UTC 2014


On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 11:37:32PM -0400, Adam Batkin wrote:
> * The default theme makes it difficult to easily distinguish the
> Focused window from all other windows - again, maddening when you
> have lots of windows spread across multiple very high resolution
> monitors. Especially with all the window focus/stacking issues

There is a "shade inactive windows" extension you might find helpful here,
although I find that its default shading level is more than I like.

> What do people think? I'm trying to be constructive here. Do other
> people agree or disagree with these ideas? I do have some thoughts
> on how to actually fix some of these things which might be suited to
> fresh threads, if I'm not barking up the wrong tree...

I think keeping track of "UI papercuts" is a useful thing. Not everone is
going to agree with every one, of course, but having a collective sense is
valuable, and I think we *can* put more emphasis on some of the developer
use.

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader


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