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[Christian Rupp <grissi.rupp@xxxxxx>]

Maybe it's only me but if you are having several text documents or 
spread sheets open you'll always chose the wrong, the bigger the preview 
the better. Every other applications look mostly very different due to 
different content in the different windows.
It's right that it is important how windows are ordered so we have to 
rethink this. Maybe when we show a big preview of the window on hover 
(as you suggested your idea may be great, But how do you want to show 
the big spread with all applications, as it will get extremely important.

Christian

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-------- Original-Nachricht --------
Betreff: 	Re: Suggestion to improve switching between multiple instances 
of an application from the launcher
Datum: 	Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:05:42 -0700
Von: 	Mathieu Beliveau <mathieu.beliveau.2@xxxxxxxxx>
An: 	Christian Rupp <grissi.rupp@xxxxxx>



Hi Christian,

Having used Windows 7 (with aero enabled), I've never found that a small 
window preview was actually a problem.  Of course, the smaller the 
preview is, the harder it is to distinguish between two similar 
application instances. Let me point out that this is already a problem 
with unity when you have a lot of instances of your application. If we 
wish to keep a static positioning in spread mode while keeping the 
windows small enough for them to be quickly accessed, I think that two 
things can be done about it:

1. Legibly display the window's title above it's preview (and this is 
what's actually done in the current spec, only the title is displayed 
when your mouse hovers the window preview.

2. Enlarge the preview on mouse over. For this many things can be 
thought of: when hovering above a given preview, you could display the 
original application's window in half transparency (full size); you 
could simply enlarge the preview itself, etc. Using one of those 
schemes, I think we might have the best of both worlds for quick and 
intuitive task switching using the Launcher...

I'd be glad to know what do you think about this. :)

Thanks!

Mathieu

On Friday, April 13, 2012, Christian Rupp wrote:

   Am 12.04.2012 22:07, schrieb Mathieu Beliveau:

       Hi! First of all, my apologies for the previous mail sent to
       each and
       every list member, individually.

       As there was some confusion about the proposals I've submitted and
       that they were not exactly up-to-date with the current
       specification,
       you'll find in the following link a very graphical summary of what I
       perceive to be potential issues with the current spec. as well
       as some
       suggestions to fix those.

       https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15dYcO1gjnVgq5hujiyp9hXePfAitD8vNJD1si1wr5FE/edit#slide=id.p

       Let me know what you think of this (comments are publicly open
       on the document)

       Thanks,

       Mathieu

   I like your idea but it makes the windows too small in my opinion.
   The thing I like most is that all windows are displayed so big in
   spread view so that you can easily read headings or logos

   Christian

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