i believe this is a good idea! +1 On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Florian Kuhnt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello guys! > > Inspired by "Starting an app on another workspace" I got some ideas. > The following should be understood as design ideas without any idea of > how to implement them. > > At the moment you can drag an application to a target workspace and > then you have to wait until the application is loaded and the main > window appears before you can do further adjustments to the > application window's size and position. Introducing a dummy window > could solve this and would bring some further improvements. > > > These would be: > > * The dummy window (DW) > As soon as the application icon is dropped a dummy window (DW) > appears. It has window decorations, close button and maybe a large > icon of the application as a place holder in the main area. > > * Visual feedback > From initiating the application start until the actual application > appears, there is highly visible feedback saying "this application > window will soon appear here on this workspace". (Even better than the > dummy task-button in the taskbar of other OSs. ;-)) > > * Resizing > The DW has the size the application had before closing. It can be > resized and repositioned before the actual application is loaded. If > the "old size" is not available a standard size will be used. > > * Abort loading > The application loading could be aborted before the main window > appears. Very useful when accidently starting a very large > application. > > * Failing > If the application fails to start, a message appears in the DW's main > window. Maybe "retry", "console output" or other useful stuff can be > offered. > > * Workspace handling > If the application is dragged to the empty workspace the DW can set > the workspace to be used and initiate creating a new empty workspace. > > > What do you think about these ideas? > Are there some drawbacks in a matter of design? > Is there already some work/thinking going on into this direction? > > Any comments would be appreciated. > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list >
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