Re: Two or three things I see coming in gnome-shell

[Marcel <lists nightsoul org>]

Am 29.01.2012 13:47, schrieb Julien Olivier:
>> This is the only proposed way of using the shell that I can't really accept.
>> I used to put Thunderbird and Banshee on the last/lowermost desktop and
>> tried to ignore them. That lead to me first putting windows on the first
>> four desktops to be able to park the named applications on the 5th one
>> without having to switch over that desktop all the time. (Having 4
>> desktops in a row for regular use.) Now I cannot take advantage of
>> dynamic creation of new desktops anymore.
>>
>> The new approach I use since a few weeks is starting TB/Banshee first
>> when I login and using the auto move windows extension to have firefox
>> and pidgin (most used applications on my "default" desktop) on the
>> second desktop, which acts as the main one then. Therefore, I can still
>> have the shell append new desktops without distracting me by switching
>> over desktops I'm supposed to ignore.
>>
>> Both approaches are more workaround than elegant, so I would love a way
>> to have applications run headless. Maybe with some kind of special
>> indication in the dash that they are running, everything else can be
>> dealt with using normal notifications.
>>
> 
> According to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651347#c5 ,
> Evolution 3.4 should be able run headless on its own.
> 

Thats nice to hear! I was always looking for a reason to use the
"gnome-native" PIM instead of Thunderbird, seems like this one is it.
Now I just need to find out why Neo2 doesn't work well with gtk3...

Marcel