remove or keep the activity view in the window list

[Marco Martin]

On Thursday 22 September 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> hi all...
> 
> now that the "panel puller" icon in the top right has been replaced with a
> "home screen" button which, when pressed, pulls up the activity view i'm
> left with a few questions:
> 
> * should we leave the activity view (currently labelled "home screen") in
> the window list? i lean towards "no", but maybe it is useful ... without
> it there, however, the strip becomes quite strictly about apps you, the
> user, have launched.

I think is very important have the least distiction possible between apps and 
the home screen, if we want our ui being less oriented towards apps, but 
towards an unite user experience, we have to do some choices that maybe are 
not immediately nice, like having the home screen less prominent and less 
distinct towards the rest.
having to depend from that button is putting a completely different workflow 
for a window that becomes more "different" making again very prominent a 
boundary between "app" and a "non app" (a thing that doesn't really exist, 
completely artificial again)
while i still disagree a lot with the existence of that button, i can see its 
need as a shortcut, but i feel removing the activity view from the window 
strip is working against to all we discussed about workflows


Cheers,
Marco Martin