[Ayatana] Fwd: Usability - Useless effect when clicking an icon (Unity)

[Spike Burch <spikeb@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Spike Burch <spikeb@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Usability - Useless effect when clicking an icon (Unity)
To: Peterson Silva <peterson.235@xxxxxxxxx>


minimize upon click is probably a bad idea. too easy for users to
accidentally lose their window

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Peterson Silva <peterson.235@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "That's what it does in Windows 7, for some applications but not others:
> for example, it works for Windows Explorer, but not for Windows Backup."
>
> What an inconsistency oO
>
> "It's not what it does in Mac OS X, at all:"
>
> Sorry, I've never used a Mac, but as all the docks out there which try to
> copy it somehow have this behaviour, I assumed that it was there where it
> came from.
>
> "Unity will soon have something very much like this."
>
> Awesome! =D But then with only one window will it minimise after clicking?
>
> Peterson
> http://petercast.net
>
>
> On 9 December 2010 14:12, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Peterson Silva wrote on 08/12/10 15:01:
>> >...
>> > So the thing is, if you have only one instance of an active window and
>> > you click its icon in the Launcher, the effect is useless. Users coming
>> > from Windows 7 (or any other version of it for that matter) or Mac OS
>> > will expect the application to minimize;
>>
>> That's what it does in Windows 7, for some applications but not others:
>> for example, it works for Windows Explorer, but not for Windows Backup.
>>
>> It's not what it does in Mac OS X, at all: clicking the launcher of a
>> running application always brings all its windows to the front, and if
>> they already are, it does nothing.
>>
>> >...
>> > So here's what we could do, then: to have different effects based on
>> > the windows opened, but with a visual hint so the user knows what to
>> > expect (and can easily understand the point of the behaviour). I'm not
>> > currently using Unity, but as far as I remember, there's no visual hint
>> > as to whether or not there are multiple instances of a window opened.
>> > We could put a small emblem over the program icon in the launcher (like
>> > in one of its corners) with a number indicating the number of windows.
>> >...
>>
>> Unity will soon have something very much like this.
>>
>> - --
>> Matthew Paul Thomas
>> http://mpt.net.nz/
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