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Thu 01 Aug 2019 09:26:20 AM EDT
Slept from ten to seven.
Woke briefly around two.
Work:
- Update staff directory
Done.
Trying out Gnome 3 again because I just want to understand how anyone uses this.
How?
Why does it show an unremovable battery indicator in the status bar of my batteryless desktop?
The tree trimmers really butchered every tree around the office this morning.
Mr. Hartman started making angry calls when he saw.
Fifteen-minute walk at lunch.
Hot, but not unbearably so.
Home:
- Dinner at Kate's new house (4755 Belzair, Troy)
Done.
Dinner with Kate, Yvonne, Isla, and Hardy.
New house — a stream, a pagoda — nice.
Hung out on the back patio after dinner, and watched the fireflies
Multiple bats swooping around a dusk.
https://www.quora.com/Why-did-GNOME-3-do-away-with-the-minimize-button
> First, let’s consider the issue of minimise buttons. Why remove them?
> - They don’t make sense within the current shell design. There’s nothing to minimize to, like a dock or window list, and it’s potentially confusing, since users will not know where their windows have gone.
> - Minimise buttons could be replaced with hide buttons, but that would require a new way of organising minimised windows in the overview and we’d need to establish an effective way of communicating where the hidden windows have gone. These changes would add complexity to the overall design (and subsequently to user interaction), and that would go against the aim of producing something that is simple and straightforward to use.
> - Workspaces and the activities overview can replace the need for minimisation. Want to see a particular window? Go to the overview. Want things to be neat and tidy? Organise them using workspaces. A lot of work has gone into designing and implementing both the overview and the new workspaces functionality – we want to focus on the best parts of GNOME 3 rather than carrying incomplete legacy functionality. And focusing on one set of functionality results in a more streamlined user experience.
All these boil down to "we forgot to design anywhere for minimized windows to go, so there's nothing for a minimize button to do."
The only answer is to hide your less used windows on another workspace (which is the solution to which I resorted).
But that's not a great answer, since they're still visible on the task switcher.
Gnome 3 has no solution for this.
Broken by design.
Servings: grains 4/6, fruit 3/4, vegetables 4/4, dairy 2/2, meat 4/3, nuts 2/0.5
Breakfast: apple, omelet, tomato
Brunch: coffee, orange, cucumber
Lunch: banana, carrots, bagel
Afternoon snack: coffee
Dinner: Mexican
121/77
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