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[Christian Rupp <christian@xxxxxxxx>]

Am 20.11.2011 21:38, schrieb Luiz Felipe Talvik:
> Recently I've done task in which I needed to refer to several
> spreadsheets and other documents. In Unity, changing between the open
> documents was quite difficult, I had to think to much to find a window
> and my focus was constantly shifting from the main task.
> The Launcher is quite agnostic to multiple window applications, so
> Unity relies to much on the window manager for this. I found it quite
> inferior to the more traditional task bar for this type of workflow.
> I've ended up running another task bar(tint2) to get my work done.
>
> When I hover an icon in the Launcher it just shows a tooltip with the
> application name. I think it would be better if on hover it also
> listed the window's titles, clicking on an item would bring up only
> the referred window. This wouldn't affect most of the current behavior.
> http://ubuntuone.com/1BAZfzHSzpHYCtfW5neY4U
> http://ubuntuone.com/02CEbphUkex7mRqSdL5Yx7
> I know Unity is aiming for simplicity, and is being inspired by newer
> OSes like android and iOS. But the work that people need
> to accomplish on the desktop is far more complex than what one does on
> a mobile.
>
> regards,
> Talvik
>
>
>
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Great idea maybe a window preview like in windows 7 would be better, but
the title has to be included as well!