Re: interapplication communication

[Gianluca Inverso <zappete gmail com>]

2010/1/5 Florian Müllner <florian muellner gmail com>

In the overview, right clicking a running app's icon in the app well
will pop up a menu and filter the window previews to only show windows
that belong to the selected application.

 

Currently the window previews are not clickable when this "filter" is enabled. They should be!

Of course, any ideas for making said functionality more discoverable
would be very much appreciated ... *hint, hint*

Here are two suggestions :)

1) When hovering an app in the app well, highlight the corresponding windows
2) Let this feature auto-enable when the mouse sits for more than a couple of seconds on the same app's icon in the app well

(1) is easy to discover, so the user will probably sit on the app
icon when looking for the window he can't find. If he can't find that
window quickly, (2) is automatically enabled.

(I also think that
right-clicking on an app's icon should show recent documents related to
it, in a way similar to Docky2+Zeitgeist. But this is already discussed
somewhere in this ml)

@Florian: replying to the ml was my intention, that's a mistake I always make with gmail, sorry!!

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Gianluca Inverso