On Saturday, 26 February, 2011 04:36 AM, Gendre Sebastien wrote:
Greate idea. But I think it's a heavy design. No?
It's need other review than mine, but I think it's a good start.
Le jeudi 24 février 2011 à 11:24 -0800, coulamac a écrit :
Perhaps an alternative way to hide windows is to have a dedicated "shelf"
workspace for windows to be placed for later use. Rather than a minimize button, there
could be a little shelf icon button on the window's title bar.
I am very confuse, how can we change something ( minimize -> shelf) when
the function is the same??? I suggest that minimize button should and
stay the same.
_______________________________________________________
|[shelf] [x]|
|_______________________________________________________|
When you hit the shelf button, the window would be transferred from the current
workspace to the shelf workspace, which would be visible from the Activities
overlay view.
Then, it should literally take two-steps before you can access those
minimized (shelved) windows since it is only visible by pressing the
super key or hovering your mouse over to activities against GNOME 2.x's
accessing it directly in the panel. What a backward concept!
(You might want to give the shelf workspace a different background, like a
wooden bookshelf picture, to differentiate it from the other workspaces.)
In addition, you might want to offer a visible shortcut
---> one click to visible shortcut = one step(and you have not yet
activated that window) is equivalent to GNOME 2.x's one click to the
minimized "window" itself and you have activated that window.
for users to quickly get back a window placed in the shelf workspace. A shelf
icon button on the panel next to the Activities button could bring up an
overlay view of the shelf workspace only, and the user could bring back one or
more shelved windows to the current workspace just by clicking on the windows
in the shelf overlay view.
As I said, the minimized/shelfed windows must be accessed one-step(take
your cursor to the shelved/minimized button and click no two clicks
please), two steps is a no no.
Panel:
_________________________________________________________
[Activities][shelf][current app menu]
_________________________________________________________
To help the user track where the window went, the window could animate to the
shelf button before disappearing from the screen.
The user could also get the shelved window by clicking on the Activities button
and moving a shelved window from the self workspace to one of the other
workspaces.
This way, we would still be working within the workspace paradigm, but users
would have a quicker way to hide and unhide their windows than just using the
Activities view.
Thanks for reading.
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