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[Akshat Jain <ssj6akshat1234@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> My comments below are written from the perspective of Unity, because (a)
> that's what I'm running, and (b) that's where our design conversations can
> have the most immediate impact.
>
> On 16/05/10 15:30, Sense Hofstede wrote:
>
> An application bucket where you can dump applications you don't want to
> take space sounds like a neat idea. The applications could stay in there,
> even when they're running and have got the focus -- this could be indicated
> by placing the focus triangle at the bucket icon (the bucket icon is
> distinct from application by a different background colour or a border
> around its icon (what icon?)).
>
>
> The Unity Launcher shows running applications.
>
> If the app fits one of the Category Indicators, like the Messaging Menu or
> Sound Menu, it may also show as "running" there, with the same visualization
> (currently, a little triangle).
>
> I think it's reasonable to have apps which *don't* show in the Launcher,
> but are still running. I'd like to hear from MPT, cc'd, on the subject.
>
> I'm not sure if it's worth making that an explicit configuration option
> (those cost a knuckle at least, remember ;-)). I've seen spec's from MPT
> where that behavior is sometimes implicit (you close a music player window,
> and it keeps running in the background *if a song was playing* but not
> otherwise), but I'm a bit uncomfortable with that myself, because I'm not
> sure what the IM analogy would be.
>
> But I would object to a *third* catch-all place where windows might
> "sometimes go", which is how I interpret your "application bucket". The
> launcher is basically that bucket already, and Category Indicators should
> suffice for things which are running but which we consider more like
> "services" than applications; we don't need a third place as well.
>
> Mark
>
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But this was for Desktop.

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