Tobias Bernard @tbernard@mastodon.social

We've been trying this web apps thing for over a decade, and a few things should be abundantly clear by now:

- Web apps will always have worse UX than nice native apps. The barrier to entry may be low, but so is the ceiling on what you can build
- The web fundamentally assumes a client-server paradigm no matter what you tack onto it, making it a bad fit if you care about privacy
- Anything we add to browsers can and will be used for adtech/surveillance

The future is going to be awesome 🌈

https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2020/12/18/gnome-shell-ux-plans-for-gnome-40

Also, I really wonder why they complicated the relatively sane 2-button setup with just start menu and multitasking with two extra buttons. Old habits, I guess :D

I really hope this isn't done yet and they're still going to fix/kill all the cruft in the bottom right (systray, three line date, notifications). That was the nicest thing about 10X by far.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/15/22535123/microsoft-windows-11-leak-screenshots-start-menu

I've been working on a series of blog posts on how power works within GNOME.

It took me a while to get my head around this when I joined the project, I'm hoping this will be of use for the next generation of newcomers.

Part 1 is out now: https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2021/06/11/power-community-1

Shower thought: In the age of software, the only means of production to seize is our time.

Some of these new Firefox symbolics are, uh, interesting

Also, periodic reminder that webOS had much nicer tablet multitasking 10 years ago :P

Based on what I've seen it looks like tiling is a bit easier than before (though that's a low bar 🙃), but overall this still seems messy and confusing. My guess is they'll redo it again in 2 years.

Some questions:

- Does the slideover thing on the right side still exist?
- The shelf seems to be a filtered list of workspaces with only the ones that have instances of the current app. It's very unclear to me how it interacts with the multitasking view and dock
- How do you open the shelf? Does it only come up automatically or when you "minimize" stuff?

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- Apps with multiple windows can open additional windows centered and overlaid, and those also have tiling controls
- There's a "Shelf" at the bottom which shows all windows of the current app + their tiling partners, which is shown when you swipe down overlaid windows
- The Shelf is also shown when you switch to an app with multiple open windows (?)

So here's what I understood about the new iPad multitasking, based on the keynote video:

- There's a three dot button in the center of the top bar revealing window controls for tiling/fullscreen
- Tiling a window goes to the homescreen for choosing the second app (rather than showing open windows, like on e.g. Windows 10)
- Swiping down from the top of a tile goes back to the home screen on that side

People: Hmm, these new Firefox tabs are pretty out there

Apple: Hold my beer

All-camera back, here we come!