[Ayatana] Activities in Unity

[Owais Lone <hello@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a few things on my mind.

First:
How about having an activities button alongside the workspace button in Unity launcher. This can be easily accomplished by activating the compiz scale plugin. I think this button can actually be much more useful than the workspace button. Also, since we want to loose the idea of minimized apps, scale plugin can act as a nice way to quickly switch between apps. Such a button would be really really helpful. 


Second:
I absolutely love the 'group and tab' plugin in compiz but it's kinda unintuitive right now. This can become a great task/activity manager If the design team figures out a nice way to integrate it with Unity/Launcher, 


Third:
How about dubbing the workspaces as activities. Unity starts with one activity/workspace and then the user adds an activity and starts working on something. The idea is to have something like Firefox's tab-candy/panorama/tab-groups.


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Owais Lone
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