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Users are split on whether window controls should be on the left or right. Hint: make it easily configurable. Otherwise, you get to irritate 40-60% of your users.
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I would be very irritated if I couldn't put my bar on the left. I put it in the left on every UI I use. The reasoning seems sound though. Where there is no strong user preference, consider making it configurable. The only way you find out how irritated people would be without the option would be to piss them off.
Consider eclipse. It allows the user to configure every. Single. Thing. And in doing so makes configuration difficult because there are so many options. Sane defaults and a consistent environment are better, imho.
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I would be very irritated if I couldn't put my bar on the left. I put it in the left on every UI I use. The reasoning seems sound though. Where there is no strong user preference, consider making it configurable. The only way you find out how irritated people would be without the option would be to piss them off.
Consider eclipse. It allows the user to configure every. Single. Thing. And in doing so makes configuration difficult because there are so many options. Sane defaults and a consistent environment are better, imho.
Now that I think of it, what will happen with the Unity HUD (`alt` key brings a search hud that indexes the app's menu, kind of like Sublime/Atom/VSCode's Control+Shift+P command palette)? Will they port it as a Shell add-on? After using that for a while and switching to another desktop, I sorely missed it.
Of the extensions they surveyed, the only one I really see as a must have is Top Icons Plus. That weird little corner tray that Gnome puts the legacy tray icons in is, well weird. It just seems so out of place. Of the rest of them, the only one I'd really loathe to see enabled by default is Dash to Dock. I really hate the that when I first log in to a fresh install there's a big static dock(initially filled with utte…
If your platform needs a bunch of extensions for CORE functionality, something is wrong.
(not really a question)
Long live Gnome!
Now that I think of it, what will happen with the Unity HUD (`alt` key brings a search hud that indexes the app's menu, kind of like Sublime/Atom/VSCode's Control+Shift+P command palette)? Will they port it as a Shell add-on? After using that for a while and switching to another desktop, I sorely missed it.
So basically: maybe yes, maybe no.