Hi Ed, On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 23:46, Ed Lin <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's always interesting to see with what solutions others come up to > exactly the same problems. In the last days both Microsoft and Apple > let us cast a closer look at their next OS versions. > > If you missed them: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MnEndww2YQ and shorter > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p92QfWOw88I > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2aaduuWTvo > > thanks for the links! > You know the windows snap feature, in Win8 you can resize both windows > with a single handler. A pretty obvious feature which would be nice > having. > tiling. (compiz:tile plugin) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/695251/comments/6 i pray someone will have the skill and courage to code that right. In full screen apps there is no "information area" (clock and hardware > stats). If they can pull that off the "wing panel" that stays below > the maximized wind as discussed in "Global menu in Oneiric Ocelot > (11.10)" could be an interesting solution for with applications such > as Chromium/Firefox with tabs on top. A click in a screen corner for > example could bring it temporarily to the foreground. If you think > about it, hidden information that is very easy to unhide and that > doesn't have to be visible all the time (if you are working on > something it's often just distraction) seems sensible to me. > Wingpanel is a great step ahead, it needs some design love i guess, but it's really cool to have an indicator-only panel, no noisy appmenu and no wasted space along the top screen edge. Full screen apps: see how the top panel slides out? They too do > without a clock and other always on indicators, the desktop is just > one swipe away anyway, i.e. it's back as fast as you can move your > eyes from the current activity to the top right. > some application developers don't see the need for a full screen mode: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/562276 https://bugs.launchpad.net/evolution/+bug/543953 perhaps using an application is a totally different experience from developing it. On another note: "Launchpad". Sue them! :P > hehe ;)
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