I am not sure if this is what you mena, but I would LOVE to see this feautre. Basically, have all of the running GUI apps in a window, grouped by type (so if netscape and terminal are running then you would see just those two, not every window). Then, there is a second level to the drop-down that shows each app's windows. So if netscape has three windows, it would look like: APPLET Hide Netscape All windows here ______________________________________ |Netscape >|> Gnome.org 1| |Gnome Term >| mozilla.org 1| |_______________| slashdot.org 2| | |____________________| kind of like macos, but add the ability to go to particular window immediately, and show which desktop they are on (the number to the right). Also, you could then issue commands (hide all netscape, or show all netscape, or whatever) based on that. I find the macos way of handling apps very good, but if synthesized with (presumably) BeOS ways of doing it, I think it could be even more powerful and easy to manage a desktop. me, delmar watkins Robert Schonberger wrote: > Hi this message is two fold: > > 1) I joined the list yesterday, and theres been no signs of life! is > anyone out there? > > Secondly, a suggestion, to avoid flames from people :) > > This comes about from viewing the slashdot pointer to a comparison of > Whistler/Gnome/Kde - and one feature seemed really nice to me (i'm at > a dumb terminal so giving URLS is not really possible here, sorry! but > it's an article from 1-2 days ago) > > Anyway, Whistler had a nice idea (which, was later clarified in posts, > as a 'stole-from-BeOS' feature) regarding its tasklist. > If there were numerous copies of a windows open (e.g. in their > screenshots , IE) - instead of having a clutter of them, it made a > single entry in the tasklist, that was a drop-up list with more > details (presumeably - I didn't find a screenshot where it was > actually dropped up) about the program. > Personally, I think this would be a great addition to the > deskguide/tasklist: It takes a while to find windows now, if you have > several workspaces going on (flipping through each window). Any > suggestions, replies to this Idea? > > Is it ludicrous? has it been done already? am I an idiot? > > Also, can we make the gnome panel more keyboard friendly? (Thats a > really ambiguous question, but I don't know any way of using they > keyboard to get at a panel). > > Ok, thanks for listening! > Robert > > -- > Robert Schonberger robsc cse unsw edu au > 2nd Year Software Engineering Student Computing 1A tutor > send email with subject exactly "get pgp key" to get my public key. > > Well, he thought, since neither Aristotelian Logic nor the disciplines > of Science seemed to offer much hope, it's time to go beyond them... > Drawing a few deep even breaths, he entered a mental state practiced > only by Masters of the Universal Way of Zen. In it his mind floated freely, > able to rummage at will among the bits and pieces of data he had absorbed, > undistracted by any outside disturbances. Logical structures no longer > inhibited him. Pre-conceptions, prejudices, ordinary human standards vanished. > All things, those previously trivial as well as those once thought important, > became absolutely equal by acquiring an absolute value, revealing relationships > not evident to ordinary vision. Like beads strung on a string of their own > meaning, each thing pointed to its own common ground of existence, shared by > all. Finally, each began to melt into each, staying itself while becoming > all others. And Mind no longer contemplated Problem, but became Problem, > destroying Subject-Object by becoming them. > Time passed, unheeded. > Eventually, there was a tentative stirring, then a decisive one, and > Nakamura arose, a smile on his face and the light of laughter in his eyes. > -- Wayfarer > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature
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