Re: Revisiting the GNOME Panel in general...

[Marius Andreiana <mandreiana rdslink ro>]

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 09:57 -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 13:32 +1000, Tristan Buckmaster wrote:
> > I have made some gimp mock ups of the ideas I posted to this forum in
> > early August (the ideas have since been modified).
> > 
> > http://sng.its.monash.edu.au:9876/18518559/demo1c.png
> > http://sng.its.monash.edu.au:9876/18518559/demo2c.png
> > 
> > All the icons on the bottom panel that have arrows are applications
> > that are currently running.  The icons on the left which don't have
> > arrows are not running and if you click on them they will launch (Max
> > OS X like).   There are three different behaviours when you click on
> > an icon with an arrow depending on the situation, they are:
> 
> And what is the purpose of this?  The OS X window/application grouping
> system is one of the absolute worst designed usability nightmares I've
> ever seen. 
+1. I've sent an hour on mac osx for the 1st time in my life, I didn't
realized how to see running applications and switch between windows
easily (in 1h).

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Marius Andreiana
Galuna - Solutii Linux in Romania
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