Re: Some thoughts about window management

2005-06-22 Thread Mike Hearn
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 02:15:38 +0300, Yaron Tausky wrote: I gimped up a little mockup to show exactly what I mean, as I believe this would be a major upgrade to current panel functionality: Hi, The mockup is pretty but there are a couple of points to consider: a) Windows lets you do this, and

Re: Some thoughts about window management

2005-06-22 Thread Calum Benson
On 20 Jun 2005, at 15:00, Yaron Tausky wrote: I think these suggestions would make the user experience MUCH better -- at least, I know they would for me. ;-) Have you read Davyd Madeley's thoughts on the panel? Some of his goals are broadly similar, although his proposals are a little

Re: Some thoughts about window management

2005-06-22 Thread Matthew Thomas
Yaron Tausky wrote: On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 17:00 +0300, Yaron Tausky wrote: 1. The context menu for tasks in the taskbar is not very helpful. Most of the functions it offers are rarely used (rollup, anyone?), even though it's the best place to put the most used ones, since it's always

Re: Some thoughts about window management

2005-06-22 Thread Yaron Tausky
On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 02:56 +1200, Matthew Thomas wrote: Yaron Tausky wrote: On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 17:00 +0300, Yaron Tausky wrote: 1. The context menu for tasks in the taskbar is not very helpful. Most of the functions it offers are rarely used (rollup, anyone?), even though it's the

Re: Some thoughts about window management

2005-06-22 Thread Ikke
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 19:56 +0300, Yaron Tausky wrote: The idea is to use this function with my other proposition (i.e. adding a WM hint that creates an icon-only window button) in order to REPLACE the software-provided notification area icon. Many people (including me) consider docking

Re: Product specific guidelines for triaging bugs

2005-06-22 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 00:46 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Hi, The Bugsquad uses a list of guidelines for triaging bugs. This is a good way for maintainers to tell the bugsquad people how they would like to see the bugs for their module triaged. These guidelines have been wikified [1], so

Re: Some thoughts about window management

2005-06-22 Thread Yaron Tausky
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 11:50 -0700, Alex Graveley wrote: Mike, I know you've looked closely at solving this, just wondering what I'm missing... Seems we could signal the app to show it's in-process menu at a given screen offset, with a given XID (the panel) as the parent, and avoid

Re: Some thoughts about window management

2005-06-22 Thread guenther
1. The context menu for tasks in the taskbar is not very helpful. Most of the functions it offers are rarely used (rollup, anyone?), me :) [...] I agree on getting rid of the Roll Up item, though. The use case for rolling up is to temporarily get a window out of the way so you can see

Re: Some thoughts about window management

2005-06-22 Thread Yaron Tausky
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 21:37 +0200, guenther wrote: As long as this won't go away, I don't care about a Roll Up menu item in the WM menu. (Which is not available here anyway...) I'm all against removing this feature -- in fact, I'd really like to be able to shade a window by scrolling up/down on

Re: Some thoughts about window management

2005-06-22 Thread Rob Adams
Its highly unlikely this feature would ever be removed from metacity, since as far as I know it works and we get no complaints about it. What I could see is removing the UI for configuring from the Windows control panel applet. Though, frankly, I think that whole control panel applet could be

Re: Some thoughts about window management

2005-06-22 Thread Matthew Thomas
Yaron Tausky wrote: On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 02:56 +1200, Matthew Thomas wrote: ... The main problem with this is that most programs would not add extra items to their menu, either because they didn't need to, or because their developers didn't get around to it because it was a near-invisible

Re: Product specific guidelines for triaging bugs

2005-06-22 Thread John Williams
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 18:56 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 00:46 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: Hi, The Bugsquad uses a list of guidelines for triaging bugs. This is a good way for maintainers to tell the bugsquad people how they would like to see the bugs for their