Clumsy Favorites in GNOME Shell
Michael Schwendt
mschwendt at gmail.com
Fri Feb 25 14:27:18 UTC 2011
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:07:19 -0500, Jonathan wrote:
> I think the assumption is that if you already have the application open, you
> can open another window easily within the application itself so it makes
> more sense to put the open command in the shell on the right-click menu.
>
> This is consistent with the Windows 7 behavior, which I find quite intuitive
> and easy to use.
"Intuitive" is a word that doesn't fit here yet.
Based on the feedback in this thread, I've revisited GNOME Shell:
* Empty virtual desktops -> no gnome-terminal open -> right-click on
the gnome-terminal icon in Favorites does not let me start a new
terminal. All it offers is to remove the Favorites item.
* One gnome-terminal running already -> right-click on the Favorites
icon _does_ offer me to start a new gnome-terminal. That's non-intuitive.
* Four virtual desktops -> I move to an empty one -> obviously I cannot
use Ctrl+Shift+N as no gnome-terminal is running on that desktop ->
left-click on the Favorites' gnome-terminal icon moves me back to
the 1st virtual desktop.
* Drag'n'drop of the Favorites gnome-terminal icon seems to be _the_
way to start the app in a new window. However, I must be very careful
and move the icon slowly into a "free" area of the desktop, or else
I am to close to existing windows, and no new terminal gets started.
> I think the problem is that you're using a 20th-century terminal emulator in
> a 21st-century shell. :-) Try gnome-terminal, in which you can open a new
> terminal from an existing one easily with ctrl-shift-n.
Okay. I just need to find the time to convert old .Xresources data into
gnome-terminal compatible GConf instructions, because configuring
custom colours and fonts (also wrt to colour-ls) only via the GUI is
inconvenient.
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