Am 30.04.2011 09:28, schrieb Koppányi Tamás:
Yes, but the question remains: How is a headless application represented in GNOME Shell? How does the user send an application to the background, given that the minimize button is gone? Is it really a good idea to go for the inconsistency and just not exit these applications on window close, but send them to the background instead?as a plain user, i'd really love to see some consistency there. the use of the close button became sort of a chaos, and now i have to remember individually for each application whether the X in the top-right corner will actually close it, or just hide it somewhere (i.e. Banshee used to close properly, but since it has systemtray/indicator support, it just gets hidden). now i am using keyboard shortcuts to manage this, but even there i found some inconsistency: some apps close with ctrl+w, some with ctrl+q, so the user has to remember individually again for each app how to actually shut it down. imho, it would be great to have a second button on the titlebar for hiding windows. and i don't necessarily mean minimizing here, but it would be great to know that the X does close the app, and the other button for example can put it on a new workspace, or something. just to get it out of sight (so you don't need to go nto activities mode and drag&drop it on another workspace). there could be some showing the user that the app has been moved to another workspace (like the workspaces sidebar showing up, and the app going there with some "minimize" effect).
While reading the last few mails I always had the way OS X does this in mind. Picking up the mail client again: Closing it would "minimize" (kinda reintroducing that feature) to the dash (!) and indicating somehow visually that it is still running. Once there's new mail, there could be an indicator (the same one, modified? + a non-persistent notification) on the dash icon that communicates that. That could emphasize even more the importance of the overview.
I actually like the closing concept OS X uses, one could introduce a close option in the top bar's application menu to carry out the headless applications concept. Or invent something else here, haven't thought this point too thoroughly yet. It would be even nicer to be able to serialize an application as said before to save the ram that it used. "suspending" applications to swap (?) comes to my mind there, but that looks very ambitious :)
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