On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 7:24 PM, appi2...@gmail.com <appi2...@gmail.com> wrote: > … > Now that I think about it, I see little need for windicators - they offer > little benefits, and pose many design problems. :/
On the topic of possible design problems, I would like to relate another discussion here: that of window menus vs. application menus, and whether window menus should be attached to their respective windows or always present at the top of the screen. The former school of thought suggests that a window menu should be beside (maybe merged with) the titlebar in an unmaximized window, and beside (maybe merged with) the top panel for a maximized window. So, that actually sounds a little like the Windicator idea. I guess we could think of window menus as the penultimate Windicators, since they are tied directly to windows and there are lots of them. However, Unity is currently going towards the latter school of thought; the global menu. Thinking about these two at the same time is making my head hurt. The distinction between system-level, application-level and document-level interface could be gloriously organic. If the distinction isn't organic — if something feels like it is at system level when it is actually at the document level, for example — confusion and frustration will be nearby. I'm not saying any particular idea here is a bad one, but I think this might need some unification. 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
