I agree whit you. You've got good ideas & good propositions we have to do someting different of windows, & better ! (sorry for my bad english)
2008/2/10, Álvaro Medina Ballester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > El 10/02/2008, a las 14:45, Jan Niklas Hasse escribió: > > > Anyway, instead of showing me the real names of the apps, do you > > have any _solid_ opinion or any critic point to my idea? > > > > Your idea is that applications are still running when i close their > > window? And that they will appear in an app selector? Well, the idea > > is not bad, but the tray does this already. When i close my app i > > can reopen it by clicking the tray icon. My critic point is: Instead > > of developing an app selector, we should drop the idea of the tray > > as a notification area and improve it instead. > > > > I mean, music apps go to "tray" in Linux... and what? I was saying > > that in my opinion this is not the right place to keep open apps. > > > > Why? I think it's a good place because a small icon doesn't take > > much place and i can perform actions like changing settings in the > > context menu of the icon. > > I'm glad to hear your opinion! > > Well, we have some points in common. We believe that the "pipe" I > described is a good way to manage applications and windows, but we're > not agree in one thing, where those open apps should be represented on > the desktop. > > I far prefer not putting open apps in the system tray because I think > that the tray should be used for things that are always open (clock, > volume manager or volume applet, network manager, etc.). So I think > that we're mixing two things in the same place. > > In addition, I think that putting a lot of small icons would not be > the best way to manage the open apps because those apps are the main > use of the desktop. For example, when I'm doing some university stuff > I have scribes open and the terminal to do gcc's and make's, so I > think that the best way to manage those open apps is keeping them > separately from another things like clock applet that you're not using > constantly. And if you have bigger icons that makes easier to > distinguish what do you want to select. > > Changing the settings in the context menu of the icon is a very good > idea. That can be implemented also in an app selector. This is what I > like to call the power of simplicity. > > When I said that about Windows culture I didn't explained myself very > well. In my university, some software engineering teachers (not some, > all) believe that Windows way to do things with the computer is the > good one just because "everybody uses it", they don't know another > ways to work with the desktop and so they've learned to work in a > Windows way so if they have another better options they don't consider > them because they have learned Windows way and they don't want to > think further. > > I remember discussing how bad is Windows external devices manager with > my teacher. If you plug 3 or 4 devices you can't know which is the usb > pen, which is the media player, etc. But in gnome's desktop, every > device is on the desktop so you can manage them very easily. My > teacher still believes that Windows does that better. I think that > this is what we need to avoid. > > Thank you for considering my ideas again. > > > Cheers. > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art >
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