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[Bazon <bazonbloch@xxxxxxxx>]

Nice timing for you, Shane, but unfortunately no one else seems to care?

OK, reading a bit here showed me that images show more than words, so 
here are two images from me, showing the "how to pick the right text 
document window?" problem:


image 1:
window spread in unity with 6 text documents:

http://ubuntuone.com/p/gtO/

seriously, it is very hard to distinguish the several documents this way!



image 2:
quick and dirty mock up: window spread with title not zoomed:

http://ubuntuone.com/p/gtQ/

that way, selecting windows would be easy.




by the way, I first tried that with pdf Documents in evince, but showing 
more than 4 documents in a window spread always crashed unity/compiz for 
me:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/732048


regards,
Bazon




On 08.03.2011 08:24, Shane Fagan wrote:
> Nice timing I did a post on ubuntu planet about workspaces and had
> some opinions on it
> http://shanefagan.com/opening-applications-on-different-workspaces/
>
> TBH I think we can do some nice stuff with workspaces if we think hard
> about it. The issue is we need to be very careful since they are
> already a bit un-needed so we need to think of useful good things to
> do with them or we need to remove them if we cant think of good ways
> to use them.
>
> --fagan
>
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Bazon<bazonbloch@xxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > 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
> >
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