> > Well, the bluntest answer here is that if a window isn't important to > what you are doing right now, it's good that you forgot it! >
Not being the active window doesn't mean it's not important to what I'm doing right now. Perhaps everything you guys use your computer for can be done using a single window, but mine can't. What if I'm compiling a presentation? I'd need the presentation itself in OOo, I might need a couple of reports in PDFs, a spreadsheet or eight, and at least one browser window, and these ARE ALL IMPORTANT TO WHAT I'M DOING RIGHT NOW. If I have a lot of sources of information, or a lot of subtasks to accomplish the job, it gets tricky to remember all of them myself. Having them listed, even in an icon only way which is how I work now (thumbnails are either too small to be useful or too big wasting space, and text wastes space too, in my experience), is a major memory aid, and consequently a productivity aid. A visual indication of what you've got going on is just such an important mental thing. It's hard to explain, but it's important. -- Sam Illingworth
_______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
