On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 17:17:14 +0100, Florian Müllner fmuellner@gnome.org wrote:
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Máirín Duffy duffy@fedoraproject.org wrote:
FWIW what I've observed in an unrelated usability study (one we did for systemd that involved working with terminals) is in gnome-shell, when you go to the overview you have a bunch of black rectangles (the terminal thumbs) that all look the same, so the task of identifying which black rectangle was the right one to click on to get the terminal you needed was challenging.
We had requests to also show application icons in addition to the window previews in the past[0], but of course that doesn't help the multiple-terminal case at all ...
I actually prefer not having an indication of which app is running, nor do I want previews. That way I don't need to worry about showing someone my screen while I'm doing a workspace switch. The key for me is consistently having the same app/ssh connection in the same workspace, so i don't need a preview to know which workspace to switch to.