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[spot]

I'm really trying to be patient with GNOME 3. I remember when I switched from Enlightenment, but I just keep running into really annoying issues.

Issue 1: Multi-monitor support isn't working right at all. (Bugzilla 695737I have a LCD monitor mounted on a stand above my desk at work that is connected to a docking station. I put my Thinkpad T500

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[ext_222141]

I know it isn't what you meant, but just one word: Alt+F9.

[wakko]

I really like where Gnome 3 is headed, but I agree with you, it'll probably be Gnome 3.4 before it's had those rough edges polished.

Agree!

[ext_349658]

I'm hit by 4, 5 and 6.

Also my laptop is a Dell one without lights for caps lock, num lock, etc; so I need an applet for that. Guess what? I can't use applets on Gnome 3 because they'd got me distracted!

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[ext_217002]

2) yes. it's icons. this is already known and discussed in multiple mailing list threads, where it's been stated that it's being worked on.

3) "I suspect once I point that out in public, the right click minimize option will disappear too." - erm, no. the option of doing it this way was specifically mentioned in the threads on why the buttons could be taken out, as a justification for doing it (i.e. you can still minimize if you REALLY REALLY WANT TO, but the obvious-button-for-doing-something-not-very-helpful-in-most-cases, and its potential for confusion, is gone). as someone else points out, there's also a keyboard shortcut.

6) it's not done yet.

How do things like Chromium do it?

[anonymous]

Programs like Chromium face a similar problem in a different form when doing things like searching your history as you type in the location bar. Somehow it does something progressive that doesn't involve distracting reshuffling - perhaps something based on this idea could be used in GNOME 3?

[spot]

Or, you don't default to showing all apps.

I find it difficult to believe that the act of generating a list of possible apps and loading their icons is something that must be done simultaneously, or with the latter blocking the former.