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[Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Guys,

I've seen a few mails/reports about the current lack of running app
indicators in Luna. I wanted to get a feel for how people who have been
using Luna for a while feel about it. Namely, is this something people are
complaining about because they expect it and aren't used to it yet, or is
this a real problem?

Personally, I don't miss them at all. I haven't used them for almost a year
now (When Gala was just a dream haha). Luna is so good on resources that it
hardly matters if an app is open or not and you can easily see if something
is open from Gala's Workspace Overview since minimize isn't part of our
regular workflow. But it also has the added benefit of saving a few pixels
on the bottom of the dock (since our OOTB default is hide-on-maximize and
not intelli or autohide I think keep the dock small is still important).

If we do decide that running app indicators are important, would it be
terribly difficult to make this a switch in the desktop plug? We may need
to ask Rico to add a key for this since I think we wouldn't want to have
this update for every user on the system (since the theming is currently
stored globally). Because I do think that there are probably a significant
amount of people for which the running indicators just aren't terribly
useful in Luna and it could still remain as the default. But hey, that's
why I am asking!

Best Regards,

Daniel Foré

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