2011/5/8 Ed Lin <edlin...@gmail.com> > I think that's the best implementation of taskbar meats dock offering > all functions of both without sacrificing too much. > But I'm not sure that's what you after. You are asking for a primary > window-centric launcher. That doesn't exist, it's not possible to do > without turning the launcher into something else, i.e. back into a > taskbar. >
Let's attempt to think outside the box for a moment. The problem: clicking an application icon launches/restores the application in question. Clicking the icon again does *not* minimize the application, as most users would expect coming from the previous version of Ubuntu. The current approach: this is a dock, not a taskbar, and thus does not offer window management functions. A potential solution: - (if application is not launched) click launches application - (if a single application window exists) - - (if application window is not active/focused) click raises/maps/focuses the window - - (new: if application window is active/focused) click minimizes the window - (if multiple application windows exist) - - (if not in expose mode) click activates expose mode - - (new: if in expose mode) click minimizes all windows and leaves expose mode The two "new:" items form the proposal. The current dock has some minimal window management capabilities (raise/map, expose) - this is the simplest natural extension to those capabilities (minimize/unmap, remove expose) to achieve the functionality expected by the users. The dock remains an application-centric dock, without becoming a window-centric taskbar hybrid. Arguments/comments welcome!
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