Re: [Ayatana] Idea for improving visibility of running applications

[Bartosz <gang65@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi All.
Thanks Niklas for this great mockup.

The first/most left screen is what I would like to create in Unity.
I didn't think about fading icons.

Currently my desktop look like this:
http://di.com.pl/pic/photo/oryginal/launcher_1304076215.jpg
With opened Firefox, Writer, Shotwell and GIMP, it is hard to find (on
my small screen) which application is currently opened.

First solution from mockup it's resolve my problems perfectly.
Can I implement this feature?


Best Regards
Bartosz


2011/5/3 Niklas Rosenqvist <niklas.s.rosenqvist@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Here I have the finished mockup of how this configurable feature could
> work. For the future, what is the best way to share images with the
> ayatana mailing list? Is it by attaching the image to the email or
> upload it like I've done now?
>
> Here is the link:
> http://i.imgur.com/bnIAE.png
>
> 2011/5/3 Niklas Rosenqvist <niklas.s.rosenqvist@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> Yeah me too, I will get working on a mockup tomorrow so that it's easier to
>> imagining the end result!
>>
>> On 03/05/11 01:11, Evan Huus wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Niklas Rosenqvist
>>> <niklas.s.rosenqvist@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Well what about making it toggle on the cursor hovering the launcher? And
>>>> maybe resaturate (maybe partially) the current hovered item?
>>>
>>> So it's saturated normally, but when the mouse moves over it only
>>> running programs (and maybe the hovered launcher) remain saturated? I
>>> like the sound of that. My only worry is that new users will think
>>> they shouldn't interact with it since it desaturates when you mouse
>>> over.
>>>
>>> Still, I would be interested in playing with a mockup of that for a
>>> while and seeing how well it works in reality.
>>>
>>> Evan
>>>
>>>> On 02/05/11 23:57, Evan Huus wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Niklas Rosenqvist
>>>>> <niklas.s.rosenqvist@xxxxxxxxx>    wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just read Bartosz mail about that the running applications aren't
>>>>>> always
>>>>>> so easy to see and got an idea. Some icon sets, like Faenza which I
>>>>>> use,
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> very colorful and since the icons are squared they almost fill the
>>>>>> whole
>>>>>> icon place holder so that the illuminated background isn't helping very
>>>>>> much. Therefore for the next iteration of Unity it would be nice to
>>>>>> have
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> option to desaturate (grey-out) applications which aren't running. So
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> the toggle function illuminates the background and makes it easy to
>>>>>> spot
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> coloured applications instead in midst of the grey ones.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What are your thoughts on that?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure that would work very well: the default launcher would end
>>>>> up this ugly grey strip since no programs are run when you first log
>>>>> on. As an user-selected option it might be ok though.
>>>>>
>>>>> Evan
>>>>
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