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Re: List windows on hover

 





actually the mailing list is only for discussion.

you will see loads of ideas flying around. But some of them may be very hard or impossible to implement.

your suggestions seems practical and dockbarX already has something similar, would be great to see it in unity.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-cbKmMTymZ10/TneWpVhTz3I/AAAAAAAAF_4/Z34C763PuS0/dockbarx_windowlist_theme.png

to submit, file a bug report and assign it to ayatana-design. Am quoting Owais's instructions here:
>First assign the bug to ayatana-design, this will propagate the
message to the design team.
Once, they discuss the idea and confirm. They'll mark it as
fix-released and then the actual code can land in Unity.
 
Things might be actually bit different but that's how I understand them
 
Good Job and Good Luck! :)
 
-- 
Owais Lone
hello@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:45:11 -0200
Subject: Re: [Ayatana] List windows on hover
From: talvik@xxxxxxxxx
To: estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx
CC: ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

>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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