panel: Add workspaces indicators in activities button (!2902) · Merge requests · GNOME / gnome-shell · GitLab
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After removing the app name and icon, the next natural step that was requested from the design team is to add workspaces indicators to the top bar, where...
  • aka_oscar@beehaw.orgEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    This saves me an extension, but i dont see it fully solving the issue of “its not clear its opens the overview” that the activities button had. Someone recommended to include a tip in gnome tour so that might help to solve it.

    In the mockup, a suggestion was made which i think looks very interesting in the animation they provided

    • s20@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 year ago

      Oh I like the look of that! I’m generally very happy with how Gnome looks/works and don’t use extensions that modify the UI, but if someone slapped together on that did this, I might actually use it.

  • Schorsch@feddit.de
    5·
    1 year ago

    Personally, I don’t mind. But hopefully, new users will know where to find available applications. I’m not sure…

    • Vash63@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      This isn’t to change the launcher or dock, just the top left of the status bar I think.

      • Schorsch@feddit.de
        2·
        1 year ago

        That’s right. But the way (I think) it’s going to work, the Applications button will be replaced by the new workspace indicator thing, and clicking it will still open the application grid. So there won’t be a button labeled Applications anymore…

        • setVeryLoud(true);
          17·
          1 year ago

          There’s a tutorial when you first sign into GNOME which shows you where to go.

          Consider this: Is it obvious that the four-square logo on Windows is the start menu? It is if someone told you or if you spent your whole life on Windows. It’s not if you come from macOS (which has no main menu per se) or you’re unfamiliar with computers.

          Besides, the new indicator does exactly what’s written on the tin: it shows you your virtual desktops when you click on the preview of which virtual desktop you’re on.

          • Bogasse@lemmy.ml
            5·
            1 year ago

            I’ve not been around windows users for a while, but last time I checked my mom was very lost when she had to start an app which hasn’t an icon on her desktop.

            More generally I heard that in general having to rely on a tutorial means bad design, which seems reasonable.

            Of course it’s hard to estimate how new user will react without proper testing, I’ll trust the Gnome team who proved to be good at their job 🙂

        • Zetta@mander.xyz
          3·
          1 year ago

          Uh aren’t they replacing the “Activities button” not the application button? Also the super key exists, so the application is redundant and disabled in my setup.