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Re: List windows on hover

 

>I wonder what would be the devs opinion about this. will you submit this
soon ?

Submit where, how? I thought this mailing list was intended for that.

By the way, where are patches discussed and approved?

On 21 November 2011 09:36, Omar B. <estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  >Maybe it would be nice to raise the window when you hover an item in the
> list, so you get the best of both.
>
> that would also be very nice.
>
> I wonder what would be the devs opinion about this. will you submit this
> soon ?
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:03:46 -0200
> From: talvik@xxxxxxxxx
> To: joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx
> CC: ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Subject: Re: [Ayatana] List windows on hover
>
> Window preview are overrated :P
> Windows from the same application tend to look the same: chat, terminals,
> file manager, spreadsheets, text editors, all kinds of documents.
> It also breaks the look and feel from the Launcher pop-up.
>
> IMHO, there is nothing easier to scan and search than text in a vertical
> layout.
>
> Maybe it would be nice to raise the window when you hover an item in the
> list, so you get the best of both.
>
>
> On 20 November 2011 20:10, Jo-Erlend Schinstad <
> joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Den 20. nov. 2011 21:38, skrev 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.
>
>
> Did you know that you can use alt+BAT (button above tab) to switch between
> document windows? It's quite efficient.
>
> Jo-Erlend schinstad
>
>
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