Re: interapplication communication

[Felipe Erias Morandeira <femorandeira igalia com>]

William Jon McCann wrote:
> Whether it makes sense or not isn't really the issue.  You can't
> really properly analyze a design piece by piece anyway.  But speaking
> of modern desktop systems, I don't know of a single OS environment
> designed in the last, say, 5 years that has a window based taskbar.
> Do you?  (Docks and live window previews are different.)  Vista was
> probably the last one ever.


My point was not specifically about having a window-based taskbar. What
I meant was that most desktop systems allow the user to check the
current tasks* at a glance and switch between them with a minimum
effort. There are good reasons why this has been widely adopted, and so
I think that not having this functionality in the Shell would be a step
backwards.



Cheers,

Felipe


* : a task could be an application, a window, a document... but that
belongs to a different debate.