GNOME 3.6 – Enlarge your GNOME – User interface paradigms
GNOME 3.6 – Enlarge your GNOME – User interface paradigms
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User interface paradigms: Gnome-Shell 3.6 and the mother of all metaphoric dividesOn Github tijptjik / GnomeTalk
GNOME 3.6
Enlarge your GNOME
Open Source Workshop
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- Mart van de Ven / m@type.hkUser interface paradigms
Desktops
Canvases
Spaces
... and the Mother of
ALL metaphoric divides
Gnome Shell
- How does it fit in?
- How can you unfit it?
User interface paradigms
- Traditional Desktop Metaphor
- 2D Canvases
- 3D Physical Spaces
- App-Centric WIMPs
Traditional Desktop Metaphor
BeOS 5.0 Desktop
source: birdhouse.orgProgrammes and files are organised in `folders`, can be represented as icons on the dekstop
- Windows applications
- Desktop with icons
- Icons based on physical metaphors
- Taskbar tracking open applications
- Icon-tray tracking system and app statuses
- Multi-tiered menu systems
2D Canvases
Raskin ZUI (Zoomable User Interface)
~ gggadgets.com3D Physical Spaces
BumpTop (3D desktop)
~ hotogeek.comApp-centric WIMPs
App-centric WIMPs still rely on the "windows, icons, menus, pointer" style of interaction, however:
- Apps first class citizens
- Full-screen utilty
- Digitally native
- Powerful search-based launchers
Gnome Shell
Windows & Reduced menus
Gnome Shell
Activities
Gnome Shell
App picker
GNOME Shells' Critics
- Dumbs down features and functionality
- Strips out configurability
- Kills productivity
- Change just ain't the same :(
Idealism vs Realism
Mother of all metaphoric divides
IDEALISM | | REALISM
Search |------------------------------------| Browse
Keyboard |------------------------------------| Pointer
Minimalism |------------------------------------| Exposed
Digital Native |------------------------------------| Skeuomorphic
GNOME SHell
How does it fit in?
IDEALISM | | REALISM
Search |-----|======|-----------------------| Browse
Keyboard |------|=========|-------------------| Pointer
Minimalism |---|====|---------------------------| Exposed
Digital Native |--|===|-----------------------------| Skeuomorphic
And how to unfit it?
GNOME Tweak Tool
cd && git clone git://git.gnome.org/gnome-tweak-tool
Available in most distro repos or directly from GNOME.org
~ webupd8.orgUndo: Dumbing down & no configurability
GNOME Shell Extensions
The GNOME Shell extension design is designed to give a high degree of power to the arts of the GNOME interface managed by the shell, such as window management and application launching. It simply loads arbitrary JavaScript and CSS. ~ gnome.org This gives developers a way to make many kinds of changes and share those changes with others, without having to patch he original source code and recompile it, and somehow distribute the patched code.Get Extensions
Extensions are hosted on Gnome.orgInstallation of extensions
Extension preferences
Remember these?
IDEALISM | | REALISM
Search |-----|======|-----------------------| Browse
Keyboard |------|=========|-------------------| Pointer
Minimalism |---|====|---------------------------| Exposed
Digital Native |--|===|-----------------------------| Skeuomorphic
How would you like this balance tweaked?
Search
Search Providers
Queries consult the search provider and provides results in your overview.
- Window Search Provide
- VirtualBox Vm Search Provider
- SSH Search Provider
Browse
GNOME Activity Journal
Journal uses the Zeitgeist framework to classify files according to metadata.
Browse applications
Keyboard
Helpful keybindings
Adds a few keyboard shortcuts for various UI elements on the shell.
Keyboard Shortcuts
WindowNavigator
Allow keyboard selection of windows and workspaces in overlay mode
Pointer
Gnome Tweak Tool > Fonts Size 120%
Minimalism
The act of creation is an exercise in constraint. Many UI elements are removable by adding extensions.
Oh my, paradox!
- Remove Activities Button.
- Remove Rounded Corners
- Remove Contacts Search Provider
Exposed
Quick launch
Favourites Panel Extension
Extended Jumplists
Powered by ZeitGeist engine
Always-visisble Dock
Represents all opened windows as Icons in a panel.
Digital Native
Pretty much fully digitally native already. Hurray!
Skeuomorphic
A derivative object that retains ornamental design cues to a structure that was necessary in the original, even when not functionally necessary.~ medialoot.comUser Themes
Undo: Productivity Killed
Auto Move Windows
Move applications to specific workspaces when they create windows
gTile
Tile your windows as you like. It even supports multiscreen!