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Re: [Ayatana] No "application bucket" needed

I think that minimise to tray was always about cleaning up the task bar (windows-switcher). There are long running apps that seldom require input and these should not clutter up the task bar. Pidgin, Rhythmbox solve this by closing the application window but continuing to run. The biggest culprit that does not do this for me is Evolution.

I think a dock solves most of the other issues which is I am using DockbarX. One case it does not allow is a single quick click to go to the window you want as you can with windows-switcher. I think a hybrid approach may solve this. You could have all open apps displayed as a icon as current docks like dockbarx do except for the windows of the current foreground application, so if I am working in openoffice, all the openoffice windows will show expanded with the windows title but all other apps will show as just an icon. This way you could quickly switch between openoffice windows by clicking on the appropriate one but still have a less cluttered task bar. It is not perfect as I might be working on a document and the pictures in it so I might want openoffice and gimp windows visible.

I agreed that alt-tab should work as it currently does, switching between all open windows.

Raymond

On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 12:32 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: 
On 17/05/10 12:16, David Siegel wrote:
> Alright, sounds like we should definitely test removing minimized
> windows from alt-tab when they are minimized to the Launcher in Unity.
>   

This would break Alt-TAB for me, completely.

I trust Alt-TAB to have *all* the windows, just in last-used order. So
things I haven't gone to are way back in the list.

I think closing the application window but allowing the app to continue
to run, is appropriate (we have this for Pidgin and Empathy and Gwibber
now, and it works).

Mark

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