-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peterson Silva wrote on 08/12/10 15:01: >... > So the thing is, if you have only one instance of an active window and > you click its icon in the Launcher, the effect is useless. Users coming > from Windows 7 (or any other version of it for that matter) or Mac OS > will expect the application to minimize;
That's what it does in Windows 7, for some applications but not others: for example, it works for Windows Explorer, but not for Windows Backup. It's not what it does in Mac OS X, at all: clicking the launcher of a running application always brings all its windows to the front, and if they already are, it does nothing. >... > So here's what we could do, then: to have different effects based on > the windows opened, but with a visual hint so the user knows what to > expect (and can easily understand the point of the behaviour). I'm not > currently using Unity, but as far as I remember, there's no visual hint > as to whether or not there are multiple instances of a window opened. > We could put a small emblem over the program icon in the launcher (like > in one of its corners) with a number indicating the number of windows. >... Unity will soon have something very much like this. - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk0A/+kACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecqDGgCgiiivwgBZp6o+Jh8i7cn6DxZL MqEAn1CSYglwHEYT4gzuhTKYcEUBrASN =z9At -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
