Taking GNOME to the Next Level

Re:Taking GNOME to the Next Level by krakensden on Sunday September 02, 2012 @01:09AM (#4466231)

> The way that the tray is triggered has also been changed. The hot corner – which many people had problems with – has been replaced. Instead, the whole of the bottom screen edge now acts as a trigger area; letting the mouse rest there for a short period will cause the tray to appear. We plan to improve this behaviour in subsequent releases, so that a certain about of pressure against the screen edge is required to open the tray (we need to wait for changes down the stack before we can achieve this).

Honestly, this makes me nervous. The Gnome team often seems far too willing to ship a bad experience because it will help "drain the swamp".

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Re:Taking GNOME to the Next Level by ealexhudson on Sunday September 02, 2012 @03:47AM (#4466496)

I'm looking forward to it - at worst, it means they've just increased the area in which that bar can be activated.

I have a dual-screen setup with the primary on the left; that bottom-right corner is often (but not always, weirdly enough) quite hard to hit if there isn't a notification there. This will be a boon to users like me, and I don't see a downside - it seems strictly an improvement, even if they want to improve it further later on...

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Re:Taking GNOME to the Next Level by krakensden on Sunday September 02, 2012 @06:10AM (#4466686)

dfc: you've been hellbanned.

"Draining the swamp" is a reference to a 2.0 era initiative on the part of the Gnome team to stop hacking their way around platform deficiencies, and instead fix them directly. That is a big part of the reason there are lots of Gnome-affiliated hackers involved in the lower levels of the desktop Linux stack.

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