On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Tyler Brainerd <tylerbrain...@gmail.com> wrote: > I disagree. I think it will only be good for the user if we have > consistent rules in the windicator area. Many mans can be moved their > for simplification of control. I'm thinking we'll see a huge explosion > of using rolled up windows again, as much functionality can be > contained in this area.
Hey, that's a nice point. I commented on Mark's blog, asking if there were plans for the window list to this end, since I am still pondering that mockup / maybe working example / thing I told MPT I would make about a week ago. (All these discussions have rocked my world!) On the other hand, it may be interesting to explore shading as a complete replacement to minimizing, though there's probably something else to be done. If my history is right, earlier GUIs did shading instead of having a window list to minimize to, but they all moved away from it. I guess this Gnome Shell mockup I made is fairly relevant to that end, though ugly looking: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/DesignerPlayground/WindowTrays Oh, let's not have for the Windicators what has just been cured for the panel, by the way. The mockup presents a lot of completely different indicators, and I am having trouble categorizing them. They seem very spontaneous, and at that rate there's nothing stopping an entire application from living inside its title bar :b I would really love it if you folks wrote up a nice, quick to understand document for application developers about when to use indicators, with the how and why located somewhere else, like you did with the NotifyOSD stuff. Thanks! Dylan _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
