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[nick rundy <nrundy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Might be worth exploring whether keyboard-shortcuts for minimizing windows could work in Spread. For example, user creates a custom keyboard-shortcut of Alt+F9 to minimize window. When in Spread and a window has orange-focus, tapping Alt+F9 would minimize that Spread-window?

Yeah, I don't know what to do about whether minimized windows should show in Spread or not. I'll leave this to the Community for now. I'm focused on the keyboard-shortcut for closing windows because this is the ONE feature that I would use a lot and frankly the only feature I feel would be hard to live without. 

From: estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: nrundy@xxxxxxxxxxx; unity-design@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Unity-design] Unity Task Switching (keyboard-shortcut for closing spread windows)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:38:07 +0000







sounds good.
Now about Minimizing.
i think it would be good to be able to minimize from the spread, not just close.
Is faster than focusing windows first then targeting the controls.
A lot of people (in several crowded bug reports) have been wanting a faster way to minimize by "clicking the launcher icon", but I think the spread is a better place for controlling all these windows, specially with the new designs show lots of potential for a "new way of window managing".
Also am not sure if minimized windows show on the spread or not, would be nice to have a hint that they are minimized and even toggle the state in the spread as mentioned.

From: nrundy@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx; unity-design@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Unity-design] Unity Task Switching (keyboard-shortcut for closing spread windows)
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:49:03 -0400







good idea about the "overlay numbers." Perhaps the user could add a modifier (e.g., Shift+1-0) to close the corresponding window? So tapping the "overlay number" would bring that window front and center but tapping Shift+1-0 would close the window. I'm not sure using Ctrl+1-0 or Alt+1-0 would be a good choice as a modifier to "close" a window because these modifiers are used in the Web-Browsers already to focus a corresponding tab (Ctrl+1-0 in Chrome and Alt+1-0 in Firefox). although Ctrl+W is used in both Web-Browsers to close tabs.

From: estelar57@xxxxxxxxxxx
To: m.richardson.1990@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; unity-design@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:29:18 +0000
Subject: Re: [Unity-design] Unity Task Switching (keyboard-shortcut for closing spread windows)







 >If they implement all of that it will be fantastic.
Am not so sure about the "close button" being theme dependent.... that would just slow the implementation and probably bring in a number of bugs. I wouldnt want it postponed to 13.04...

i think a generic overlay close button would do better, like what you see with the numbers.
On the full spread it should also show an icon for each app. i.e.
http://www.panchosoft.com/blog/wp-content/2008/04/gnulinux3.jpg
cinnamon also did it in the last release.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yMA9-qHyzdU/T1_XvERtWHI/AAAAAAAAIMY/HA-fRZZ1Vdo/s1600/cinnamon-1.4_2.png

http://www.webupd8.org/2012/03/cinnamon-14-released-with-new-hot.html
also agree with middle click close.
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 01:34:25 +0000
From: m.richardson.1990@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: unity-design@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Unity-design] Unity Task Switching (keyboard-shortcut for closing spread windows)


  


    
  
  
    WOW. If they implement all of that it will be fantastic.

    I know there may be quite a few users who would question the removal
    of workspaces by default, but:

    A) they're still optional

    B) I used to use them all the time, but I've found that even without
    all of the extra features/improvements in this document, task
    switching in Unity is easier, so I rarely use workspaces now.

    

    +1 to the middle click idea and to having a keyboard shortcut. My
    only thought is that Ctrl+W is not intuitive for close.

    Since any letter might represent an appropriate word in one language
    but not another, I wonder if delete might not be more intuitive and
    international?

    

    Matt

    

    On 16/03/12 22:05, nick rundy wrote:
    
      
      
        The proposed Unity Task Switching features are nice work:
https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/document/d/1EdrlUuZvA9P8-BZufUU2KlHGjg49p9UacF4MCL0U5uA/edit?pli=1&pli=1

        

        However, it would be nice to have a keyboard shortcut option for
        closing windows from within Full-Spread and Application-Spread.
        The google doc made no mention of this capability.

        

        I hope the following feature for closing windows from within
        Full-Spread and Application-Spread will be added to the
        feature-list:

        1.) when a window in Full-Spread or Application-Spread has focus
        (i.e., orange highlight), pressing Ctrl+W will close that
        window.

        

        I think it would also be beneficial to have this feature as
        well:

        2.) middle-clicking a window from within Full-Spread or
        Application-Spread will close that window

        

        

      
      

      
      

    
  


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