> Minimize in place is good idea when there is no file icons on the > desktop, > which is probably what we want to do.
Yeah -- I think we can safely get rid of icons on the desktop. Anything that appears on the desktop should be either a maximized or minimized window. > 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 It's an interesting idea, but it seems conceptually messy. It makes sense to minimize windows in place as windows occupy a physical space anyway, so minimizing them into roughly the same location makes sense as windows approximate "tangible" objects in desktop space. Applications, however, are more "conceptual", less "tangible". Applications simply "act on" windows. They exist outside of any particular physical area, as one application could have multiple windows spread out over various locations on the desktop (or even various virtual desktops). If one needs to switch to an app without first activating an already existing window, I would suggest either Alt-Tab or Classic Mac OS Application Switcher style interaction (or launching the app from the file manager for apps that are closed). These seem like the best routes to go down in order to ease a transition to an environment that is more Document-centric than Application-centric. J. _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
