Gnome3 RFE discussion !?

[Joe Wulf]

I'd also suggest having the ability to manage/initiate much of what you are talking about from the command-line.
Additionally, the ability to have a script initiate windows/sessions/programs/applications on a named workspace, would be invaluable.

-Joe


>________________________________
> From: William Case <billlinux at rogers.com>
>To: Fedora List <users at lists.fedoraproject.org> 
>Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 11:06 AM
>Subject: Gnome3 RFE discussion !?
> 
>Hi;
>
>I am looking for suggestions of where I can get this conversation going
>with some people who would like to participate in such a conversation. 
>I have tried the Gnome users list but no takers.  My interest is in
>exploring the ideas expressed here before taking them forward as a
>request for enhancement.
>
>I want to go forward not back.  I would like to see Gnome get rid of all
>panels, task bars, and extraneous doodads in my work spaces.  I want
>instead to use dockers, multiple dockers that I can call up by short cut
>key, mouse motion or from the activities space.
>
>I would like the dockers to have all the properties of a file, an icon,
>a launcher and a panel or several different panels.  
>
>I want to be able to create a new different docker on the Activities
>window, place launchers and files in the docker and name it.  That way I
>can have a main application running in a work space but also a docker
>that contains subsidiary programs that I use often while working in that
>application.
>
>I can then design or load dockers that would have applications or what
>used to be applets that are apropos to the type of work I was doing
>and/or the main application I was using.  I would have several different
>kinds of dockers these created by me to pick and choose from.
>
>I would like the dockers to be made visible on my desktop/workspace the
>same way I can make a main program visible.  I.E. drag and drop it in a
>workspace in the activities window.
>
>I would like the docker to appear on my workspace as a small icon that
>could be opened like a file to see all of the subsidiary applications or
>functions I have available to me.  I would like the docker not to be
>restricted to a bar shape, but be able to re-size and re-shape it much
>the same way as a application window by grabbing the edges or bottom
>right corner.
>
>There are many other considerations that could go into this design, but
>essentially I would like to get rid of the desktop metaphor and instead
>make my workspaces project and work oriented.  
>
>I do more than one kind of thing on my computer.  I want to be able to
>easily write an article in LibreOffice using all my tools such as
>dictionary, thesaurus and character map for writing.  Then, say, switch
>to something completely unrelated like working with music or photographs
>in another workspace and have a docker for each of those that contained
>music subsidiary applications, or browsing the internet.  I would like
>to have a docker where I kept all my system tools.  The menu would serve
>me as the place to find the items I wanted to put in my various dockers
>or to store programs seldom used.
>
>Is anybody interested in this kind of concept and/or discussion?
>
>-- 
>Regards Bill
>Fedora 15, Gnome 3.0.2
>Evo.3.0.2, Emacs 23.2.1
>
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