On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 17:17:14 +0100,
Florian Müllner <fmuellner(a)gnome.org> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Máirín Duffy
<duffy(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> FWIW what I've observed in an unrelated usability study (one we did for
> systemd that involved working with terminals) is in gnome-shell, when
> you go to the overview you have a bunch of black rectangles (the
> terminal thumbs) that all look the same, so the task of identifying
> which black rectangle was the right one to click on to get the terminal
> you needed was challenging.
We had requests to also show application icons in addition to the
window previews in the past[0], but of course that doesn't help the
multiple-terminal case at all ...
I actually prefer not having an indication of which app is running, nor
do I want previews. That way I don't need to worry about showing someone
my screen while I'm doing a workspace switch. The key for me is consistently
having the same app/ssh connection in the same workspace, so i don't need
a preview to know which workspace to switch to.