On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Toki Tahmid<oxwivi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This is NOT a suggestion to turn launcher window-centric, just a thread to
discuss how it'd be.
Essentially a window-centric launcher is an oxymoron because "launch"
always means "application", but read on.
On 7 May 2011 23:06, Toki Tahmid<oxwivi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I don't know why everyone's making an assumption that I suggest something
like preview of Windows 7's taskbar, but I want to make it clear it's just
an example.
I'm not making any assumptions, please read more closely.
I brought up the windows 7 task bar because it's the only mainstream
implementation of a fusion of taskbar and dock. However as I pointed
out in the default configuration it is actually a plain app-centric
launcher and only has secondary window-centric elements. Much closer
comes the non-default win7 taskbar that has app-launcher icons that
expand to window-icons which are grouped by application.
One step is probably missing though, see this mockup
http://i.imgur.com/YwMeg.png
from http://pastehtml.com/view/1e1uiox.html
I think that's the best implementation of taskbar meats dock offering
all functions of both without sacrificing too much.
But I'm not sure that's what you after. You are asking for a primary
window-centric launcher. That doesn't exist, it's not possible to do
without turning the launcher into something else, i.e. back into a
taskbar.
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