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[Ed Lin <edlin280@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Niklas Rosenqvist
<niklas.s.rosenqvist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is it really necessary to indicate which windows are hidden? I mean if you
> cannot see it you can assume that it's hidden or somewhere else. Even if it
> is hidden, it can still be accessed with alt+tab or super+("S" is it? I'm
> not on a Ubuntu machine at the moment) so there is a minimal practical
> difference between a window being hidden or not. I'm using Windows 7 for
> games and Adobe Creative Suite and what I can see they don't show which
> applications are hidden.
>
It's an option for the OS X dock and I always used it there. I agree
it's not necessary, just a possible option to think about and my
mockup leaves this option open. IMO more important is to indicate
hidden windows in the expose view.

Actually, right now an indicator for hidden apps makes no sense
because while Unity is more app-centric the applications used on top
of unity aren't (yet) app-centric and unlike on OS X you can't quickly
hide or focus all windows of a particular application with one
click/key-combination. Going forward with the application-centric
paradigm this certainly needs to be addressed as well.