On 2/25/10, Apoorva Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > Gnome shell's method of switching and starting applications is quite original, > and very useful. However, is suffers from one main drawback: the system for > switching > between open windows. Since the windows are shown as scaled down previews > without > titles in the overview, finding the window you want becomes difficult. This is > because of two main reasons:
There are titles in overview mode, below each thumbnail. Although I admit I rarely look at them, too small compared to window previews. And the previews have all my attention from the first glance. > Another problem, not specific to gnome shell, but rather to all operating > systems, > is the notion of tabbed browsing, tabbed documents, etc. Basically, many > applications > have implemented systems to allow what used to take multiple windows to be > done > in one, by tabbing the content of the windows. Lets take a look at some > applications > that have implemented this: > > Firefox > Epiphany > Nautilus > The new GIMP > Pidgin > Epiphany > Gedit > etc.Furthermore, some applications would benefit from this, but haven't > implemented > tabs yet, e.g. OpenOffice > > The functionality provided by the tabs in these applications is the same. This > is a lot of redundant code. > > To solve this issue and the previous one, we can implement tabs in the window > manager. I'm thinking of the other way around: think of windows as workspaces and tabs as windows. Then if applications can "borrow" gnome-shell features, they could show overview mode inside app windows. More freedom for applications, less time to wait for a standardized spec. And applications may be able to choose a better way to represent tabs, instead of tab thumbnails. By turning all tabs to windows and let the window manager manage them all, there would be too many windows, too many tiny, lookalike thumbnails in overview mode as you said, which does not help at all. -- Duy _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
