Every Detail Matters, Round One (Complete)

1 Dec 2011 - 19 March 2012

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1 Dec 2011 - 19 March 2012

For this round of Every Detail Matters, we will be focusing on the Activities Overview. We are aiming to fix 20 UX bugs before the GNOME 3.4 code freeze!

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Workspace switcher

Workspace thumbnail active area should extend to edge of monitor

Fixed - StefanoFacchini

Allow dragging of workspaces to reorganize them

Incomplete

Use a more visible cue to highlight the active workspace

Fixed - StefanoFacchini

New workspace indicator sometimes gets stuck

Fixed - StefanoFacchini

Creating workspaces at arbitrary positions only works for windows

Fixed - Stefano Facchini

workspace switcher - visual effect on hover

In progress - StefanoFacchini

Window labels should not hide while the workspace switcher slides in

Fixed - ZanDobersek

Avoid two-step animation when going to the overview with mouse over workspace selector

Fixed - JoostVerdoorn

The dash

dragging icons in dash is hard

Fixed - Florian Müllner

Two tooltips/labels displayed in the Dash at the same time

Fixed - SeifLotfy & StefanoCandori

Dash icon dragging placeholder jumps around

Fixed - Jean-Philippe Braun

Dragging a non-favorited dash item back to its original position should not favorite the app

Fixed - Jean-PhilippeBraun

Remove an icon from the dock while the app is running; result is confusing

Fixed - Florian Müllner

give visual feedback of while holding ctrl (to launch new instance)

Incomplete

Move tooltips under pop-up bubbles

Fixed - SeifLotfy & StefanoCandori

Highlight application windows when hovering launcher icon

In progress - SeifLotfy

put app labels beside launchers

Fixed - SeifLotfy

Improve timing of tooltips (like in gtk+)

Fixed - SeifLotfy

Window picker

Window dragging system needs polish

Incomplete

Window labels disappear with some actions

Fixed along with bug 644861

Single window in "Activities" overlay looks usable

Fixed - VítStanislav

windowAdd animation when closing an app from the overview rearrangement causes wrong window to be selected

Fixed - VítStanislav

Highlight newly opened windows in overview

Needs design

window captions don't resize on update

Incomplete

Add animation when closing an app from the overview

In progress AlexHultman and JasperStPierre

window label box colours should match the dash

Fixed - MarcPlanoLesay

window labels should be bigger and have more padding

Fixed - MarcPlanoLesay

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highlight window thumbnails on hover

In Progress - Marc Plano-Lesay

Grabbing a window in the overview twice doesn't work

Fixed - StefanoFacchini (with help from AlexHultman)

App Picker

Text size of labels in activities too small and get ellipsized instead of wrapping

In Progress - Pierre Ossman

font in application display is too small

Fixed - AlexHultman

General

Don't show "new window" for single window apps

Incomplete

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allow using volume hardware keys / shortcuts to take screenshots in the overview

Incomplete

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Non-linear overview and modal dialog shade

In progress - Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer

Tough issues for the brave and foolhardy

Modal windows disappear in the overview

Incomplete

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use all available space for windows in window selector

In progress - Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer

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Keyboard navigation of windows in Activities overview

Incomplete

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applications loading isn’t fast enough

Incomplete

Windows in activity overview not resized correct

In progress - Vít Stanislav

screensaver won't activate when a grab is in place

Incomplete

OSD's don't work when in overview mode

Incomplete

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window thumbnail shadows in the overview

Incomplete

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