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Created attachment 479165 [details] Bad user experience Description of problem: It gets really annoying after some time how the last used application gets highlighted and pulled under a new application that you started. It has the same behaviour of you click activity and then click last open application then it pulls the other application beneath it self. It's like the applications are pulled together and being stacked on top of each other.. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-shell-2.91.6-6.fc15.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start Firefox from your favourites 2. Now click Activities and start the next application like Rythmbox 3. See how Firefox gets pulled beneath Rythmbox Actual results: Horrible user experience Expected results: Rythmbox being started in next to firefox in a windows ( see UI-Exp1 ) or Rythmbox being started fully maximixed ( see UI-Exp1 ) Additional info:
Created attachment 479166 [details] Expected user experience 1
Created attachment 479167 [details] Expected user experience 2
I'm sorry, I can't really understand the bug report, and the screenshots don't make it any clearer to me. Maybe you can provide step by step reproduction instructions and describe what you see and what you expected to see?
Either follow the direction in "Steps to reproduce" and see the attachment "Bad User experience" which will show how it currently behaves. See attachment Expected user experiment 1 and 2 to see what I consider as an expected behaviour when opening another application..
Hum this might actually might prove to be usable if we default metacity's focus mode to follow mouse instead of click all thou you will still be distracted by all the application movement tiling beneath the application you just started
Really, the design is very simple - when you click on an application in the activities overview: * We start the application, and its window is positioned normally (same as in GNOME 2) * We leave the overview I don't really see a bug and we're not going to make any changes here before GNOME 3.0. I would invite you to get involved in the upstream GNOME design community if you have ideas about how things can be improved in the future. (The one thing that might be strange is that if Firefox remembers that it was previously maximized and Rhythmbox doesn't - but that's an application issue more than a GNOME Shell issue.)
I guess you call it "Overview" what is so distracting in the usability and the only improvements suggestion that I have up the sleeve is regarding "Applications" and moving that more into "smartphone" behaviour and making it more tablet pc friendlier ( market is heading more that way ) but since the things have already been set in stone and you aren't going to be making any changes before Gnome3 I don't see the point elaborating on that further or put time in doing mockups. I think you for your invitation joining but I'm already a part of the best community that exist ( Fedora ofcourse ) and I have no intention of being a part of community that includes Canonical and it's employs..