Gnome-Shell - questions and opinions

[Nex6 <borg borg1911 com>]

hi all,

First I would like to say great work on Gnome/Gnome-shell. I loaded 
Gnome-Shell on Fedora 14 and messed arround with it for awhile. I also, 
poked around the NET, and the archives of this list (just joined today).


But I sadly, I agree with those that think the use patterns/work-flows 
of Gnome-Shell is not right. I really like the "control center" and the 
lay-out under your user name. but the whole, activities, pop/zoom thing 
click click click. just does not work. it would force you to create 
shortcuts on the desktop. just to avoid that mess, the idea of a desktop 
environment is to help the users with their work-flow. I am not saying 
Gnome should copy OSX or windows. but, don't go off the deep end 
different just to be different from them. when flipping around the 
shell, the constant changing and zooming started to give me a headache.

ok, why not:

make the activities a drop down menu/sidebar with no zooming, or better 
yet make it optional/move the zoom some where else.

next:

make it possible to add icons/shortcuts to the top menu bar. infact make 
it easy to do so like add a right click menu item under add to 
favorites, as add to top menu. (make it movable)

also in the same vain, add a, "add to desktop item"


ok, that's good for now as I explore Gnome Shell I will add more.



-Nex6