Re: [Ayatana] List of running windows of an application in the launcher quicklist

[David <david.reichling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
i did a mockup already some time ago:
http://unity.exemo.net/7/
click on firefox to see how it could look

David Reichling

2011/3/27 Tomasz Janusz <tomick@xxxxxxx>:
> Yes, i created smillar bug on Launchpad in last week and we can merge it.
> And I agree "Expo" effect is pretty, but not quite usefull.
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/738288
>
> --
> Tomasz Janusz
>
>
> On 26 March 2011 20:11, Luke Benstead <kazade@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 23 March 2011 14:13, Bilal Akhtar <bilalakhtar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> > I filed bug [1] in unity today, and it was marked 'opinion' by sabdfl as
>> > it needed more discussion before it could be implemented.
>> >
>> > The current way of switching between windows of the same app is
>> > time-consuming. The launcher icon has to be clicked twice for the
>> > 'spread' compiz view to get activated, and then we switch between
>> > windows.
>> >
>> > Alongside this, it would be good to have a numbered list of running
>> > windows of an app, in its launcher icon's quicklist. This list would be
>> > separated from the rest of the quicklist items by a separator line. An
>> > example of such an implementation is in Gnome-Shell.
>> >
>> > Awaiting your comments,
>> >
>> > Bilal Akhtar
>> >
>> > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/740862
>> >
>>
>> I agree, I think switching windows in Unity is cumbersome and
>> frustrating. Windows 7 actually gets this right IMO, if you hover the
>> application icon you are shown a list of that application's windows.
>> You can select the window you want in a single click, it's extremely
>> fast and easy to use.
>>
>> DockbarX also implements this for GNOME and also gives the option of
>> window previews instead of a list. I urge anyone who hasn't tried
>> DockbarX to give it a spin under GNOME 2.x I think it would be a huge
>> improvement to Unity if this kind of window switching was implemented.
>>
>> Luke.
>>
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