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[Ian Santopietro <isantop@xxxxxxxxx>]

@Mark: Sorry about the double, I forgot to hit my "Reply All".

I find that setting the backlights to toggle gives me a good visual
indication of what's running and what isn't. Maybe this should be the
default behavior?

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From: Ian Santopietro <isantop@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 09:18
Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Group Active Applications at One Place
To: Mark Curtis <merkinman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: vibes.ubuntu@xxxxxxxxx, Ayatana Mailing List <
ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


I find that setting the backlights to toggle gives me a good visual
indication of what's running and what isn't. Maybe this should be the
default behavior?


On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 08:14, Mark Curtis <merkinman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Running application are available at a glance with the light to the left
> of the icon.
> Grouping them together would mean that the placement of the icons would
> constantly change, hindering muscle memory.
> The problem may be that running application are still difficult to pin
> point even with the lights, but I don't think constantly shuffling icons is
> the solution.
>
> > From: vibes.ubuntu@xxxxxxxxx
> > To: ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:57:29 +0000
> > Subject: [Ayatana] Group Active Applications at One Place
>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > My name is Nitesh and this is my first mail to Ayatana Team. I recently
> > filed a bug in Launchpad and I will repeat the same here as advised.
> >
> > Active applications in Unity currently don't group at one place and they
> > are scattered at various spots in the launcher, even in the icons that
> > are folded in accordion style. This is a real pain because we should
> > know what applications are currently active in one glance. Since we
> > cannot see the entire launcher at one go, specially in large monitors,
> > it takes quite a effort to spot and open apps that are active. It get
> > worse when apps are pinned way at the bottom as they remain folded even
> > when they are active. Hope you get the idea.
> >
> > The solution would to group them at top or at a place where active apps
> > can be quickly spotted.
> >
> > Screenshots:
> >
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/736683/+attachment/1914060/+files/Screenshot-1.png
> ,
> >
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/736683/+attachment/1914061/+files/Screenshot-2.png
> >
> > Launchpad bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/736683
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