Re: ANN: GWorkspace 0.6.5

[Sascha Erni, .rb]

Hi Enrico,

Excellent news! Works like a charm, and I am particularly fond of the 
splitting. Inspector.app is great, and I like the new Finder. Great 
work, it is much appreciated. :)

I do hope though, from a usability point of view, that you will rethink 
the Desktop.app <-> Dock <-> Recycler make-up. I was quite dismayed to 
find I needed to start Desktop.app to get the Recycler functionality, 
not only because Desktop.app runs sort of weird on my system (screen 
flashes when clicking on the desktop, only centered images are accepted 
as desktop backgrounds), but also because you copied some of the bigger 
interaction design mistakes Apple commited with OS-X, by implementing 
the dock like this. ;) For some more information on them, feel free to 
consult the following article:

http://www.asktog.com/columns/044top10docksucks.html

Specifically, I'm talking of points 7 and 5, and in part 3 and 1. 7 is 
not too serious, as we've only got applications in the dock (for now?). 
Also, the situation is not half as bad as with OS-X as the dock doesn't 
hide itself or bloats the icons on mouse-over. Right now though, I'm 
employing a folder on the Fiend as my "Recycler" rather than using 
Desktop.app, which is also due to the fact I use Window Maker and thus 
already have an Appdock, appicons of running programs, the Clip, and 
GWorkspace's Fiend running. I don't really need yet another Dock eatig 
up screen real estate just to have the Recycler back.

If you stick to splitting GWorkspace up into more modules in the future, 
may I suggest a Recycler.app to go along with the others? Alternatively, 
an option to chose whether the Recycler should be in the dock or on the 
desktop (as before, so to speak) might be dandy, too. And the dock needs 
to be disableable for those who don't like docks to begin with.

Please mark I'm speaking as an end-user here, not as a developer, and 
off the top of my head at that. Also, it's past 1.30am here. So don't 
take this criticism too seriously. :D

Have a great day,
-Sascha.rb
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