Greate idea. But I think it's a heavy design. No?

It's need other review than mine, but I think it's a good start.




Le jeudi 24 février 2011 à 11:24 -0800, coulamac a écrit :
> Perhaps an alternative way to hide windows is to have a dedicated "shelf" 
> workspace for windows to be placed for later use.  Rather than a minimize 
> button, there could be a little shelf icon button on the window's title bar.
> 
> _______________________________________________________
> |[shelf]                                             [x]|
> |_______________________________________________________|
> 
> When you hit the shelf button, the window would be transferred from the 
> current workspace to the shelf workspace, which would be visible from the 
> Activities overlay view.  (You might want to give the shelf workspace a 
> different background, like a wooden bookshelf picture, to differentiate it 
> from the other workspaces.)
> 
> In addition, you might want to offer a visible shortcut for users to quickly 
> get back a window placed in the shelf workspace.  A shelf icon button on the 
> panel next to the Activities button could bring up an overlay view of the 
> shelf workspace only, and the user could bring back one or more shelved 
> windows to the current workspace just by clicking on the windows in the shelf 
> overlay view.
> 
> Panel:
> 
> _________________________________________________________
> [Activities][shelf][current app menu]                    
> _________________________________________________________
> 
> 
> To help the user track where the window went, the window could animate to the 
> shelf button before disappearing from the screen.
> 
> The user could also get the shelved window by clicking on the Activities 
> button and moving a shelved window from the self workspace to one of the 
> other workspaces.
> 
> This way, we would still be working within the workspace paradigm, but users 
> would have a quicker way to hide and unhide their windows than just using the 
> Activities view.
> 
> Thanks for reading.
> 
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