design principles, vision and consistency are good things. Usability and efficiency are essential things.
@Joe: I dont think either Omar or Louiz are refering to quick lists. what they are speaking of is a menu that pops up *as soon* as one mouses over the icons, (only If more than one window is open - as pointed out by callum). @all: The proposed change to the launcher (pop up menu) is essential. The suggested fix for showing titles of *all* windows along with previews is also very important. previews are cute but a title alone is more useful than a preview without a tile. (Title+preview>Title alone>preview alone) Tangent thread: Task management is broken in ubuntu. The whole focus on 1)removing the distinction between running and launchable apps (why is it important to confuse them?) 2)app based vs. (window + workspace) based Alt+Tab switcher(very glitzy but of no practical use above use above ~10 windows IMO) Is highly disruptive to productivity. Even this will still be much less efficient than a bottom taskbar due to: 1) the targets are not at a screen edge.( elder users have very poor coordination in targeting) 2)The targets are close to each other and small in the axis of stacking ( 20 pixels) compared to taskbar entries(200 pixels at the screen edge) 3) if we have large targets, we need the menu to stay visible for a while as the users will have to move the mouse a long way. however this will make false positives/ accidental shows very much more irritating. <scream> We need a task bar!</scream>
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