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Re: close instances of an application from the overview in unity

 

Sort of like Maemo on the N900?
http://www.philipkaskela.com/img/maemo.jpg

^This is the running apps overview - ie exposé, you'll notice each
instance has a close-button and can be terminated without actually
'selecting' the instance.

-phil

> Great suggestion, I actually already tried to aim at the close-button of
> some documents in the window switcher. No success :-P
>
> On 05/03/2011 07:52 PM, cyrildz wrote:
>> Hi All, Great Job for bringing Unity to desktop, I really enjoy Unity.
>>
>> I have a suggestion, which will please many users I think.
>>
>> First Im not an english speaker.
>>
>> Let face the situation first:
>>
>> I have many instance of an application runnig, let say Firefox ( main
>> window and the download window), or more relevant Evince  with many
>> documents opened.
>> If I want to close one or two instances (documents) or more, I have to
>> locate first which is the right instance before closing, with many
>> instances this way is not quicker and will requiere more mouse clic.
>>
>> The better way of doing this :
>>
>> if we clic on the icon of the concerned application, Unity shows us an
>> overview of all this application's instances. We could use this overview
>> feature and add a close button on top of each instance so we could
>> directly close the instances we no more need. this way is better and
>> user friendly.
>>
>> what do you think ?
>>
>>
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