Fix Annoying Things

Status: Complete

Description

Since GNOME 3.0 has been released there are many reviews and user comments. For this feature, let's target the bugs that have been mentioned in these. (Note: this feature is not about disagreement with the design.)

Some good examples are:

• 644930: Window border frustration

• 636216: Primary monitor mystery

Here is a list of bugs that have been filtered out of 3.0 feedback:

• Theme using too much screen space (mentioned repeatedly in mailing lists and in reviews):

  • 645824: Comboboxes, buttons and spin boxes are the wrong height

  • Title bars are too tall. No bug for this, but it has been fixed according to Jimmac.

• 649257: Show bars in battery status icons (Originally reported here: http://k3rnel.net/2011/05/01/why-im-sick-and-tired-of-gnome-shell/)

• 649570: Highlight effect is too subtle, particularly in the dash This was reported by users on several occasions.

• 649571: Label text is too small This was reported by users on several occasions.

  • Should be fixed when the new window picker decorations land: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650254

• 645922: Lightswitch OFF state looks disabled

• 643101: Add a link between keyboard settings and region and language Users complained that they couldn't find the layouts settings

• GNOME Shell: add multiple time zones to the calendar

  • 644390: calendar doesn't let you display the time for different time zones

  • This is the focus of a GSoC project: https://live.gnome.org/freesteph_Libgweather_GnomeShell

• GNOME Shell: make the overview navigable by keyboard

  • 644306: Keyboard navigation of windows in Activities overview

• GNOME Shell - it is easy to miss incoming messages

  • The two main bugs that need fixing here are 636838 and 643014.

• GNOME Shell: find a way to launch multiple apps at the same time. Possible fixes:

  • 633671: Staying In the Activities Area When Launching Applications

  • 649845: launch apps in the background if SHIFT is held down

  • 643830: middle click launched applications should be backgrounded

• GNOME Shell - log out in user menu is unnecessary on single user systems

  • https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657011

• GNOME Shell: the application categories are too far away from the activities button
  • Should be fixed when the designers get their way and the categories are nuked ;P
• Control center - preferred apps is hard to find

  • https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657012

Owner

General coordination by the release team, Frederic Peters

Involved Parties

For assembling a set of bugs, the marketing team.

For tracking them, the release team.

For fixing them, the concerned developers.

Current Status

2011/05/06: The marketing team has been discussing this initiative. Annoying issues that have been mentioned in reviews or user reports will be added to this page. AllanDay

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