Originally posted by pal666
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A well designed DE should be able to adapt to several workflows. And what it should not do is impose a unique way to its users. It's a narrow-minded view.
But it confirms what I was saying, Gnome and people like you have their head so far buried in the sand that you forgot users pull the design, and not the other way around, i.e. the design is pushed onto them.
I can use my hands. Are you a dimwit or what? But I don't see the point on a media oriented system managed from my couch where I mostly browse, play videos, music or sometimes have a go at a game. It's not relevant and even cumbersome to use a keyboard in these cases, except to input a couple of stuff. But it certainly doesn't require one hand ready to use the keyboard. Again, you're probably too closed-minded to even think of workflows different than yours.
That said, even on my laptop, where I'm actually more traditionally seated with both hands close, I still go faster with dash-to-dock than with the super key to switch or open windows while keeping a clean desktop. Minimizing with a click on an already targeted dash icon and maximizing another window through a light scroll on a nearby icon is faster than finding the minimize button on the window, then go for the super key, spot the wanted window (randomly positioned) and go for the click to open it. I've just tried in different ways and it is a bit faster. And I don't need my left hand to be ready as if I was playing a mouse hammer game.
Plus, and that's a requirement for me, I know at all times with a visual dot (or highlight of any kind) which apps are open and how many instances.
I'm happy this design works for you, your workflow and the necessity of both your hands at all times, and that's why I'm always an advocate of options. I like people to have the choice, and not to make these choices for them (often against them). But you'll have to accept it is slower and less practical for me in many ways. And I certainly don't see why I would slow down my workflow to accommodate (be forced down) to a design thought by somebody else. As I mentioned in a different article comment, I'm a Business Analyst, I have to prevent people like you to force down stuff on actual operational end users every single day.
So yes, it's Gnome's fault to narrow down the possibilities for users so much. I'm not asking to have options for every different workflow (or being KDE), but at least to have a limited set of options to accommodate the most common use cases and not just the one.
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