On 30 Jul 2007, at 19:46, Yen-Ju Chen wrote: > Minimize in place is good idea when there is no file icons on the > desktop, > which is probably what we want to do.
It could work with, if you had a very different appearance, such as giving minimised windows different shadowing, or something like the grey squares that WindowMaker uses[1] > It is interesting, and there are a couple choices of implementation, > from generate an image on desktop as a fake minimized window > or using x.org composition for a real minimized window. I'd love to be able to get proper Composite-driven miniwindows. > Then how about hiddien-in-place ? > When you hide an application, it shows an icon on the desktop, > which you can move around and click again. I'm not sure how this is different from minimising. I prefer hiding to minimising since I can get rid of all of the clutter associated with an application at once, and bring it all back with one click. This seems to be just reducing the clutter, rather than eliminating it. > But all these minimized and hidden windows will be covered by > other windows. That's what Exposé is for ;-) > So you have to use 'show desktop' to see them. > In another word, > unlink dock which allows you to switch at the same place (border > of screen) > you temporarily remove all active windows in order to switch. > > So probably top-right corner give you a Expose-like layer showing > all windows, > and top-left corner give you the desktop, which has minimized > windows > and hidden application. I still like the idea of minimised windows showing up as mini windows in the Exposé view. They should all be the same size (unlike real windows, which are adaptively scaled), and have a border than marks them out as being different. Applications which are hidden should appear as icons in a row at the bottom of the screen in this mode. Since we only have hidden applications here, they can take up more space than they would in the dock (e.g. 128x128 pixels), making them much easier to hit, and buying us back some of the time we lose from having to corner-activate to see them. David [1] Can someone tell me how WindowMaker compares to CoreObject; I've been using it for a while... _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
