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[Tomasz Janusz <tomick@xxxxxxx>]

That's great mockup, but I think we are talking about icon behavior, when
right mouse button was clicked. Then shows menu with list of open windows,
pin to launcher option and quicklist.
This mockup is good for hover action and must be implemented by software
vendors like Mozilla.

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Tomasz Janusz


On 27 March 2011 14:01, David <david.reichling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> i did a mockup already some time ago:
> http://unity.exemo.net/7/
> click on firefox to see how it could look
>
> David Reichling
>
> 2011/3/27 Tomasz Janusz <tomick@xxxxxxx>:
> > Yes, i created smillar bug on Launchpad in last week and we can merge it.
> > And I agree "Expo" effect is pretty, but not quite usefull.
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/738288
> >
> > --
> > Tomasz Janusz
> >
> >
> > On 26 March 2011 20:11, Luke Benstead <kazade@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 23 March 2011 14:13, Bilal Akhtar <bilalakhtar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > Hello all,
> >> >
> >> > I filed bug [1] in unity today, and it was marked 'opinion' by sabdfl
> as
> >> > it needed more discussion before it could be implemented.
> >> >
> >> > The current way of switching between windows of the same app is
> >> > time-consuming. The launcher icon has to be clicked twice for the
> >> > 'spread' compiz view to get activated, and then we switch between
> >> > windows.
> >> >
> >> > Alongside this, it would be good to have a numbered list of running
> >> > windows of an app, in its launcher icon's quicklist. This list would
> be
> >> > separated from the rest of the quicklist items by a separator line. An
> >> > example of such an implementation is in Gnome-Shell.
> >> >
> >> > Awaiting your comments,
> >> >
> >> > Bilal Akhtar
> >> >
> >> > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/740862
> >> >
> >>
> >> I agree, I think switching windows in Unity is cumbersome and
> >> frustrating. Windows 7 actually gets this right IMO, if you hover the
> >> application icon you are shown a list of that application's windows.
> >> You can select the window you want in a single click, it's extremely
> >> fast and easy to use.
> >>
> >> DockbarX also implements this for GNOME and also gives the option of
> >> window previews instead of a list. I urge anyone who hasn't tried
> >> DockbarX to give it a spin under GNOME 2.x I think it would be a huge
> >> improvement to Unity if this kind of window switching was implemented.
> >>
> >> Luke.
> >>
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