Re: Scroll to zoom in/out.

[Jason Sauders <roastedtiresx gmail com>]

To me, a dock-like application just "makes sense". I don't see GS 
getting mass used WITHOUT the use of Docky or something similar 
otherwise. Zooming in/out all of the time simply to switch applications 
is one of those things I look at and go "Wait.. lol, really?" I use 
Ubuntu all day, every day. At any point, I'm multitasking between a few 
different documents at once. I'm not saying to re-vamp GS just to fit 
what me and the majority of current GS users want, I'm just saying... 
make it an option. Let there be an option for me to go into some 
properties window and enable one that's embedded within the top bar of 
GS or something. I find to the left of the clock, it's wasted area. Who 
cares what your currently active window is? It's really kind of useless 
to have that there. Throw in a dock-like window switcher similar to the 
way Ubuntu Netbook Remix has it and let it an option for people to 
activate if need be.

My point is simple. I like GS a lot, but I'm sorry - I'm not going to 
come within 20 ft of it if I have to zoom in and out every. single. 
time. I. want. to. switch. an. application. Sorry - it just doesn't make 
sense there. I know we have alt-tab, and I utilize alt-tab a lot, but it 
just doesn't fill the void.

I just don't see why it makes sense to go without it... but that's just 
my opinion. Hopefully we'll see one... Otherwise, I hope there's a way I 
can disable the notification area so my dock will be uneffected at the 
bottom of the screen.

Tomasz Sterna wrote:
> Dnia 2010-04-13, wto o godzinie 19:48 -0400, Jason Sauders pisze:
>   
> > What if alt+scroll is bound to zoom 
> > in/out? That'd be pretty handy.
> >     
>
> Good idea. :)
> +1
>
>
>   
> > are we going to see some sort of dock-like or somehow an integrated 
> > system to quickly switch between active applications WITHOUT having to
> > go to the overview mode (or alt tab) to do it?
> >     
>
> Please, no dock!
> http://www.asktog.com/columns/044top10docksucks.html
>
> Could you please elaborate, why do you think having all running
> applications visible at once and accessible with one click so important?
> Is there a use case, or is it just resistance to change the habit?
>
> There is a case when you are working with two/three windows (source and
> destination document) and need to be able to quickly change between
> them, but there are many sooooo better ways one could accomplish this.
> 1. If you have big display, just tile the windows to see them both at
> once. There are even WMs that enforce this workflow. [1]
> 2. If you are working with test, keyboard switcher (Atl-Tab) is so much
> quicker than leaving the keyboard and handling the mouse. We even have
> one application window switch shortcut (Alt-`)
> 3. Grouping working set windows in one using a window manager feature
> and switching the grouped windows with mouse or keyboard. [2] [3]
>
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiling_window_manager
> [2] http://wiki.compiz.org/Plugins/Group
> [3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nK4_cH5sbM
>
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