Hi, On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Jud Craft <[email protected]> wrote: >> Rather than just copying off Windows 7, why not come up with something else? >> How about there are two (or more) windows. Clicking (dragging?) on the side >> of one window makes it instantly scale to the next window, or if no window >> is present, the edge of the screen. This way a user could easily have 3 or >> more documents side by side, or even do 2 but tiled vertically. > > On the other hand, there's no need to come up with a special "gimmick" > that does the same thing. > > Just make an easy way to simply arrange windows. If it involves > "dragging to the left/right side", so be it.
Right. I really like the simplicity of the Windows 7 approach. If we believe the research data that they have published I think they made a smart choice. See http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/10/01/user-interface-managing-windows-windows.aspx (Real World Usage section). Side-by-side comparison was definitely the sweet spot. However, we may be able to have more advanced features to tile the top N windows in the stack or something. Not sure. Jon _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
