Re: Fwd: Is the Minimize button still useful with gnome-shell ?

[David Mulder <greatslovakia zoho com>]

Definitely against this proposal/mockup, as it makes the shell more complicated, while the whole point is to have it optimally simple. Secondly an item contains less information than a window preview. If any interface like this has to be created, I would suggest a minimization closet which acts like a workspace showing all minimized windows (but which opens the window in its original window once you click on it).
 Still I don't think there is any reason to hide windows from the gnome-shell, as I suggested before, removing the minimization button and leaving only a super+h shortcut (which doesn't hide the window from the shell) should be more than enough?  
  David Mulder

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 6:29 AM, Mathew Howard <mathew litewire net> wrote:

Mathew Howard wrote:

I’d kind of like it if the minimize removed the window from the overview
and reduced it to an icon somewhere… maybe above the desktop overview.

  

Here are some quick mockups. I have it showing a popup preview - sort of Windows 7 style, but now that I think about it, it might work better to do something more like when you right click a running program (show only that window or maybe all minimized windows for that application in the overview, depending on how we'd handle multiple windows...).

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