On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 5:37 AM, Adam Batkin <adam(a)batkin.net> wrote:
Unfortunately I wasn't able to watch Langdon's video, but I
watched
Christian's talk and read Langdon's the slides. I actually spoke with
Langdon at OSCON where he accurately described me as a "developer on Linux"
which is [usually] distinctly different from a "Linux developer".
To me, the biggest thing that I would like to see, is Gnome to be more
comfortable for a developer (that's why we're all here, right?). Developers
often spend a lot of time with their hands on the keyboard (as opposed to
the mouse) and are already comfortable installing packages, etc... I'm sure
Gnome is great for general computing users (though we can debate that too)
and maybe touchscreen users like it, but I find it maddening. I just built a
new PC though, and for the first time in a long time I'm forcing myself to
use Gnome instead of XFCE (I tried KDE as recently as a few months ago and
found it to still be unstable and have really weird theme/UI interactions).
GNOME works really well with a keyboard only. You can start and switch
apps very easily with the keyboard
"super + typepartofname + enter" ...
And no you do *not* need a touchscreen for anything. Repeating that
does not make it true.
But there are a bunch of other "polish" things that I think
also need to be
fixed. For example:
* There are at least half a dozen Gnome Bugzillas that I've come across
around focus and window stacking issues - and I think I've encountered every
one of them. This is maddening. For someone who uses the keyboard as much as
possible, this makes the system almost unusable
What are those focus and stacking issues? You have to name them
otherwise we can't discuss / solve them.
* 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
Really? At least for gtk3 apps the whole unfocsued window dims
("backdrop") which makes it very cleary shown as unfocsued.
Again no idea what your "focus / stacking issues are"
* Silly things like the fact that you need to drag to get rid of the
screensaver/blanker thing - Individually, this isn't *that* important, and
there's already a BZ for it, but no one seems rushing to fix it. I can't
think of a single case where a non-touchscreen user would WANT that
functionality, but there still doesn't appear to be a way to rid yourself of
it
You do *not* need to drag it. You can just type you password. Or hit
ESC or press Enter.
Maybe it is not clear enough that you can do that though.