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I sometimes find it hard to understand the GNOME's design rationale. When GNOME 40 moved the dock from the left side to the bottom of the screen, it created an
by curt15 5y ago
I sometimes find it hard to understand the GNOME's design rationale. When GNOME 40 moved the dock from the left side to the bottom of the screen, it created an ergonomic problem for mouse users, who now need two large mouse gestures to switch apps -- first to the upper left corner to reveal the dock, then all the way to the bottom. And in the issue thread[1], Gnome's designers seem to be carefully avoiding the obvious solution of a hot bottom edge, proposed by several commenters, which is how Mac OS has always handled an auto-hiding dock.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/os-mockups/-/issues/68 https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/os-mockups/-/issues/68
- kaba0 5y agoOf course it depends on the person, but I have never really used the dock for anything. I usually use the overview, or start typing the name of the app I want, or even more often just apt tab to it.
- lower 5y agoI don't really understand the rationale either, but it's easy to add a hot bottom edge with this extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4222/hot-edge/ https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4222/hot-edge/