Re: [Ayatana] Is it time we killed "minimize to tray" ?

[Luke Benstead <kazade@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 15 June 2010 08:10, Martin Owens <doctormo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 14:08 +0100, Luke Benstead wrote:
> Is there a reason why DockbarX is not suitable for this? I've attached
> a screenshot incase people dunno what I'm talking about :)

That is what you would get if you removed the ... from the bar when they
get resized.

I never understood why there was a ... when no text could fit.

Martin,

That's quite obviously a bug worth reporting :D

Regarding DockbarX, it does behave differently in than the default in that:

1. It always groups by application icon
2. It displays the application windows on hover, rather than on click

This makes it incredibly easy to use, any time you need to access a window, say a Firefox window. You immediately move to the Firefox icon and select the correct window with a single click. I've been trying to come up with a better window switcher but I can't think of anything.

Luke.

P.S.  I did try creating a DockbarX style window switcher with indicator applet style menus (rather than 
the slightly inconsistent Cairo based DockbarX ones) but I had no luck getting the menus to show and hide correctly on mouseover/exit - I think that would have been pretty cool :)