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

[Ryan Peters <sloshy45 sbcglobal net>]

On 03/22/2010 11:55 AM, Glen Patras wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 19:01 +0100, Rovanion Luckey wrote:
>    
> > --
> > Yeah, that makes sense. The left side of the window could have "left"
> > and "right" buttons for workspace switching (makes the feature more
> > obvious to new users). It'd make it look a little more "balanced" (two
> > buttons on each side), wouldn't it? The program icon can go right
> > before the window title (saves space and looks better than sitting in
> > the corner IMO).
> > --
> >
> > Tough the one does not have to exclude the other as my friend here
> > pointed out. Sometimes you simply want a a window to go away for a
> > while, not having it pop up on another workspace. So removing this
> > feature goes against Gnome Shell guidelines dictating that the user
> > should be able to work in a focused manner on a task. The user would
> > not be able to hide away ie chatwindows effectively.
> >
> > And on the balancing point. I don't know if that would result in the
> > title bar being any more "balanced" since the movement-buttons could
> > range from zero to four. Or maybe there should always be one button
> > visible even tough there is only one workspace open, and this button
> > would open up a second workspace and then move the window to that
> > workspace.
> >
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> Changing it to a workspace switcher button makes sense, but to make it
> simple shouldn't it just open a floating menu with options based on the
> workspaces as they are presently configured with a couple extra options
> on the bottom, rather than add multiple buttons?
>
> Example:
>
> [1] [2]
> [*] [4]
> [C] [+]
>
> where:
>
> # - # of workspace
> * - current workspace (most probably greyed out)
> C - Closet workspace (if that idea is used)
> + - create a new workspace and send the window there.
>
> Regards!
>
> Glen Patras
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Sounds great, but what would the use be for a current workspace option 
when it isn't grayed out?