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[nick rundy <nrundy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm having the same usability issues with Unity. It is making it REALLY hard to use Unity successfully to get stuff done!

In addition to your suggestions I sent an e-mail to Ayatana-List a month or two ago suggesting something else that I think would also help improve the situation:

*****I'm finding it incredibly frustrating to use "Unity" because of the 
inability to close windows without first having to open them first. With
 previous gnome 2x I could right-click the window button in the taskbar 
(gnome panel) and select "close." With *****Windows 7 I can close a window 
via the popup preview that win7 generates when i place the cursor over 
the taskbar icon (regardless of what window is actually opened and 
focused)..
*****In Unity, it would sure be nice to be able to close a 
window from within Spread Mode via middle-click. Similar to how I can 
close a tab from within a web browser. 

From: estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: talvik@xxxxxxxxx; ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:48:54 +0000
Subject: Re: [Ayatana] List windows on hover







Talvik, 

I have been increasingly suffering the same problems you have for a while, then i remembered you mentioning some proposals for a solution.

So I opened a bug about the problem here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/908811

Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:38:29 -0200
From: talvik@xxxxxxxxx
To: ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Ayatana] List windows on hover

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/1BAZfzHSzpHYCtfW5neY4Uhttp://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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