Hi Florian, thanks for your anser, Not entirely correct - the workspace separation of both icons and > thumbnails only covers "on the current workspace" / "on another > workspace". >
True, I have to give you that. > I can only guess, but I'd say that one major point is to make the dash > more stable - the alt-tab switcher is at least stable during each > invocation (there may be a workspace switch when leaving the switcher, > but never while it's up), but applying the same logic in the dash would > not only mean that the icon order changes between overview invocations, > but also while the overview is up. > You also have a point there. Applications with windows on several workspaces would have to change place every time a different workspace were selected. > In my opinion there would also be some issues with the dash displaying > not only running applications, but favorites as well - favorites being > listed first in a user specified order, followed by non-favorite running > apps. Bringing workspaces in would necessarily require mixing favorites > and running apps (and breaking the order defined by the user). > I may not have myself clear there: the top part would show only non-running favourites, and the workspace would show any type of running app (either favourite or non-favourite). Therefore, non-running favourites would never mix. They would always be apart. > Adding thumbnails to running applications would double the functionality > of the window picker (which should be the primary mean of selecting a > specific window in the overview) - using the right-click menu to select > a window gives another selection method, in case the previews are not > distinct enough to pick the right one. > Two things I'd like to say about that: First, it would "kinda" double the picker's functionality. You use the picker to select any window from a given workspace, regardless of its app. You would use the dash to select any window from a given app, regardless of its workspace. That's two different usercases: in the first you're looking for a window you have more or less in front of you, in the second you're looking for a Firefox window but you don't quite remember where you put it. Second, I don't think the thumbnails should appear right away. I think having them appear on right-click (or maybe pressing right if you're using the keyboard) should be enough. So, basically the same we have now, only showing previews instead of a list. You brought very good points to the table, thanks a lot :-)
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