The whole problem with your solution is that you will start over-complicating the interface, as you will be adding a new element (the icons in the notifications area, thus the notification area won't be a notification area anymore and if you minimize e.g. a transmission window you will have two transmission icons). With my mockup no new elements are added at all. David Mulder
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Fernando C.V. <ferk...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think that the approach should be simple and avoid creating any new > concept just for minimizing. Let alone complicating the overview. > > What about making the minimized windows turn into an icon at the > current notify bar? > This way it'll partially (or totally?) solve the problems that some > people have with the lack of a taskbar (they can just minimize the > windows they wanna have on list and the notify area at the bottom will > show the list of windows). When the icon of a window in the notifybar > was clicked the window will pop up and unminimize. > > The minimized windows in the notify area won't show up in the > overview, so that minimizing can be also a way to clean up the screen. > > Also, the minimized windows could be shared between different desktops > (the same way notifications stay the same no matter the desktop you > are in) this way, for people who use different desktop and don't need > as much minimization, they can use it for moving windows between > workspaces easily (just minimize and unminimize into a different > desktop). > > -- > Fernando Carmona >
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