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[Sam Spilsbury <smspillaz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/18/10, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 18/06/10 15:00, Sam Spilsbury wrote:
>>> Yes, perhaps show them at 1:1 scale as emblems on the window previews,
>>> whatever the underlying window scale is for the reveal / alt-tab.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>> I would imagine with 24x24 icons you're going to have enough room for
>> about 4 of them on each window thumbnail before they start running off
>> and things get ugly fast. Even with 18x18, I'd say 5 is pushing it. I
>> guess you could increase the size of the window thumbnail, but I don't
>> see how that would fix much.
>>
>> What happens if applications have more than 4 or 5 indicators?
>>
>
> We'll have to think about that :-)
>
> Suggestions? Show the ones that most recently changed status?
>
>

Do you need to interact with them during alt-tab? Remember that your
screen is grabbed and you are busy finding windows, not tweaking them.

In that case, I'd say scale them down accordingly. Not only will this
fit in better more visually, but it also makes a heck of a lot of
sense when we get input redirection and can interact with those tiny
widgets anyways*

*I'm going to at least try to push for this in the next few weeks in
upstream X11.

-- 
Sam Spilsbury