On 02/28/2012 10:30 PM, Petko wrote:
On 02/28/2012 09:23 PM, Nekhelesh Ramananthan wrote:
Hi all,
The compiz spread that is currently seen in Ubuntu is a nice way to
see all the applications running. However, when you have many windows
open it can sometimes be confusing which window is what. I was
reading through some blog post about Gnome Shell having a similar
feature but they provide an important improvement.
1. They provide the application title below the windows shown in the
spread.
2. They provide a close button to close the application directly in
the spread itself.
Thoughts? I think this would make an interesting update for spread mode.
Nekhelesh
The topic has been mentioned a few times . I'll sum up my views on how
the spread (scale) should be improved (including your remarks) :
1. Change the speed from 1.4 to 4 (the animation becomes
counterproductive after the eye candy marvelling period)
2. Make the option to close windows with middle click (in Scale
addons) a default (after the browsers introduced it for the tabs I
think it became a standard)
3. Add a "X" like GNOME , so those who don't know about the middle
click can handle closing
4. Application titles . I haven't investigated it , but I think there
is some problems with the titles in Scale , the options for displaying
titles is there ,but it isn't working.
5. Show icon by default . When there are many windows all of them look
the same and I think it's best to have the option ,to show icons in
the bottom-right of the windows ,selected by default (though I think
the best one is with the big transparent icons . That means we need
higher resolution icons , wich raises a whole bunch of problems , so
it's not going to happen) .
There may have been something else , but I'll be happy if the proposed
default settings changes happen .
Petko
@Jonathan Meek, It is not sufficient that the application titles are
displayed on the top bar since a user would be focussing on the
application window rather than the top bar. Also it makes sense to have
all the application titles displayed beneath the application window
rather than at the top bar where it is displayed only when you hover
over a window.
@Petko, I agree with your proposal +1 except for the animation speed. I
think it is not fast nor too slow. But I guess this is a personal
preference so its open to feedback on other users.
Nekhelesh
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