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

[Scott Kitterman <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jeremy Nickurak" <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 17:24, Jan Claeys <lists@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> That option is still there in GNOME 2.30 (as included in Lucid).
>>
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>Nope.
>
>Early gnomes had (IIRC) 3 options for what to show on the taskbar:
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>1) Show only windows from the current workspace
>2) Show windows from the current workspace, AND minimized windows from all
>workspaces
>3) Show all windows from all workspaces.
>
>1 and 3 have been the only option in gnome for years.
>
>To restate, my feeling on the subject is that windows that are minimized,
>thus, not actually appearing on any desktop/workspace, are fundamentally
>more ethereal, and shouldn't have the concept of a workspace at all.... they
>should be sticky/appear-on-all-workspaces.
>
Then if you don't want a window in the taskbar and it happens to be minimized, you switch to a different workspace, maximize it and switch back?

Scott K