On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Gino Vincenzini <openmysourcec...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why not just make "smart-raising" windows the default feature, its never > useful in the vast majority of cases for the application to hide smaller > windows behind itself... when that happens to me it makes me, in trolled > style go FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!
That's pretty much the response I'm having to talk of "smaller" and "bigger" windows. I'll be very surprised and puzzled if this is actually a discussion about windows based on their size. There are different kinds of windows and they have names. I suspect the smaller windows spoken of are those things that are called "utility windows", "palettes", "toolboxes", or things like that. There no One True Dictionary, but using names from the Mac, Windows, Java, or GNOME HIGs will be better understood. How windows should be raised or lowered in response to user action is something that can be defined and should be encoded into applications, mostly at the toolkit level. The situation on X is more than a little screwy because of years of doing it wrong. I find that after however many months I've been using Unity, I am still not comfortable with the available window switching mechanism. That sort order changes in the spread view is one problem. Having to remember that the window I want to switch to is part of whichever application it gets grouped with is another problem. (Seriously, applications are implementation details.) Really, there is no simple window switching mechanism; the closest is the spread on Super+W. To tie this back into the discussion of "smaller" windows, utility windows (which should have a smaller title bar than regular windows) should be left out of the normal window switching sequences; keeping them in is, afaik, needed as an accessibility option. This is just an impression I get, but it seems often when "smart", "auto", or something like that is used as a prefix, it's attached to something that wasn't being done properly in the first place. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
