No, it is not time. On 5 May 2010 16:38, Luke Benstead <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been giving this a lot of thought recently, well actually, I've > been irritated into giving it thought after not being able to find my > Rhythmbox window. I've been trying to work out why we have "minimize > to tray" functionality at all and all I can come up with is that it is > because the window-switcher applet is so horrible. > > The window switcher applet has a bunch of problems, mainly that each > entry takes up too much space, and with an entry for each window you > fill up the space pretty quickly. When that happens you can't read the > titles of the windows, so you may have 5 Firefox windows and have to > hover over all of them to find the right one. You can, of course, > group them but even then that doesn't really help when each entry > still takes up a large portion of the space and requires a click to > access the windows in the group. > > It's because of this shortage of space that I believe "minimize to > tray" exists. Minimize to tray is essentially "I don't need this > window cluttering up my taskbar, but I need to leave it running" and > the only reason I can think that normal bog-standard minimize isn't > suitable here is because the window-switcher is cluttered and the > window gets in the way. > > I've been running DockbarX for a little while now, which groups > windows by their application icon, and displays a list of windows with > *full* titles when you hover that icon with the cursor. The massive > advantage of this is that you can open a hell of a lot of applications > before you run out of room, in fact right now I have 12 applications > (even more windows) running and I've not even filled half the panel > and I'm not on a widescreen resolution either. In this situation > minimize to tray is: > > a.) Effectively the same thing > b.) A pain to work with because now there are two possible places that > your window could be minimized to > > So, my suggestion is that we remove the minimize to tray functionality > from the indicator applet for apps outside the messaging menu and > replace the window-switcher with DockbarX or some other switcher which > follows a similar principle. I'm not saying DockbarX is ideal, but > it's a massive improvement on what we have already. > > Luke. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana<https://launchpad.net/%7Eayatana> > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana<https://launchpad.net/%7Eayatana> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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