On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Adam Tauno Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 10:18 +0300, Pasha R wrote: >> >>> I believe the number of people that need minimizing vastly outnumber >> >>those who don't. >> > I don't believe anyone needs minimizing. Why are you minimizing windows? >> > Windows can go to the back of the stack - where they interfere with nothing >> > - or be dumped on another workspace. I don't see any reason to have an >> > invisible application running. That sounds like it should be reimplemented >> > as a session service. >> That is very simple. Temporary, I don't want that application to >> interfere with what I'm doing, but I don't want to close it >> completely, because I'll need it in its current state later. For >> example, I minimize browser when I'm working, but I want to return to >> it fast when I want to take a break. > > That sounds entirely to me like "task" management, not "window" > management. But the take-a-break windows in their own workspace; task > management is the purpose of workspaces.
There are more reasons to want particular application to be running for some time without interfering with others, I gave just one. Also, I do not classify things I'm doing as "tasks" or "window management". _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
