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[Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Niklas Rosenqvist
<niklas.s.rosenqvist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well what about making it toggle on the cursor hovering the launcher? And
> maybe resaturate (maybe partially) the current hovered item?

So it's saturated normally, but when the mouse moves over it only
running programs (and maybe the hovered launcher) remain saturated? I
like the sound of that. My only worry is that new users will think
they shouldn't interact with it since it desaturates when you mouse
over.

Still, I would be interested in playing with a mockup of that for a
while and seeing how well it works in reality.

Evan

> On 02/05/11 23:57, Evan Huus wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Niklas Rosenqvist
>> <niklas.s.rosenqvist@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>>
>>> I just read Bartosz mail about that the running applications aren't
>>> always
>>> so easy to see and got an idea. Some icon sets, like Faenza which I use,
>>> is
>>> very colorful and since the icons are squared they almost fill the whole
>>> icon place holder so that the illuminated background isn't helping very
>>> much. Therefore for the next iteration of Unity it would be nice to have
>>> a
>>> option to desaturate (grey-out) applications which aren't running. So
>>> that
>>> the toggle function illuminates the background and makes it easy to spot
>>> the
>>> coloured applications instead in midst of the grey ones.
>>>
>>> What are your thoughts on that?
>>
>> I'm not sure that would work very well: the default launcher would end
>> up this ugly grey strip since no programs are run when you first log
>> on. As an user-selected option it might be ok though.
>>
>> Evan
>
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