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[Bazon <bazonbloch@xxxxxxxx>]

hello, i'm new to this list.
see (*) below why i came here.

i have a few comments on window and workspace management in unity:

1. selecting windows
when you have multiple windows of one application, clicking its icon in 
the launcher gets you an graphic overview of all windows of this 
application. selecting the right window can be quite hard like that: 
it's easy when you have several images, but when you have several text 
documents, it's really hard to distinguish them: everything is zoomed 
much smaller! selecting one such window was much easier by window-title 
in the task bar.
so i propose:
just don't zoom the window title. or maybe make a bubble for each window 
in which you can read the title.

2. workspace management
i'm used to work on six workspaces and doing that, i don't like to be 
distracted by things going on on the other workspaces. in gnome or with 
cairo dock (as an option), that was easy: one just can see 
representations of the windows on the active workspace in the taskbar / 
in the dock.
with unity, that seems to be not possible: the launcher shows 
representations of ALL windows on ALL workspaces. plus the launcher bar 
can get overfilled, so you have to scroll... (avoiding overfilled 
taskbar was my first motivation to use more than one workspace)
so i propose:
please add at least an option, so that one only sees the things on the 
momentary workspace. see bug 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/683170 and 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/689733

3. launcher options
for better window / workspace management, i would like to have some more 
right click options for the launcher:
 * open new window
 * close all
 * close all on this workspace
 * show all
 * show all on this workspace


thank you for your attention.

regards,
Bazon


(*)
How I came here:
this way: 
http://askubuntu.com/questions/9890/will-unity-be-more-customizable
there was proposed to join this list.
english is not my natural language, sorry for mistakes