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[Callum Saunders <dancemeep@xxxxxxxxx>]

The windows previews should only show if the app has multiple windows
though, otherwise it would be unnecessary.

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Christian Rupp <christian@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  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!
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