On 4/12/2011 11:37 AM, Pippa Kyle wrote:
You shouldn't need to make out details in Win7 as the whole window
is previewed on the screen behind the switcher.
On 12/04/11 17:18, Kevin Liao wrote:
Just my personal opinion, the thumbnails in Windows are too
small to be useful. I think that the Mac one is better since it
is easier for the user to make out icons rather than hunting for
details on a tiny thumbnail.
Cheers,
Kevin Liao.
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Pippa Kyle <pippa.kyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hello Ayatana guys! Just wanted to get some
opinions...
I'm looking into making improvements to task/application
switching on the desktop with Alt-Tab. There are
slightly different approaches currently for Windows 7
and Mac.
Personally I like the Windows way, as the window preview
in the background helps me find exactly what I'm looking
for. I can easily switch back and forth between 2 apps,
and I can also see which window is part of which app.
I can see that the app-based approach in Mac isn't a bad
thing, but without the window preview, I'm not sure how
this approach would scale to smaller screens.
Any thoughts on this, and what would be good for Unity?
Regards,
Pippa
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I just started using Windows 7
at work (having been a long-time Ubuntu at home and Win XP at
work user). I found Windows 7's way of previewing windows while
holding alt and tapping tab very confusing--I had no visual cues
of where I was "at" or how many times I needed to tap Tab to get
where I was going, as the switcher was often covered by the
window that I was previewing (this is probably a bug or, more
likely, simply a poor implementation of what they were trying to
achieve).
I find previews (even the outline-of-the-window-only previews)
visually confusing, mostly because when I alt+tab, I want to use
as little brain power on finding the new window as possible.
Previews add visual noise that's rarely helpful to me and tends
to ask me to devote brain power to figuring out what I'm being
shown.
I much prefer the traditional alt+tab switcher (in both Windows
and Gnome) which provides application icons and text, only
because it's easier for me to identify icon shapes and colors
quickly then confirm my choice with the window title, rather
than to try to figure out whether the white window filled with
rows of text that I'm looking at is a version of a spreadsheet
or my inbox.
Unfortunately, the traditional switcher is rather plain jane
appearance-wise. There's probably a better way to switch
applications, something I haven't seen yet (I can't comment on
the Mac implementation, having never used it). But I think
focusing on making windows/icons immediately recognizable while
minimizing visual noise is vital.
Jake T
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