Re: A task panel

[Sean Brady <sbrady gtfservices com>]

This is a major design issue that needs to be addressed for 3.0.  
Otherwise I do not think that this great project will gain widespread 
adoption.  User testing in this "focus group" is telling you it is 
needed.  I believe that it would be unwise to ignore it.

I think that the list has asked for something to allow switching between 
tasks without having to go to the overview many times.  Every time it's 
been rejected.  The overview is simply too slow for switching between 
windows , no matter how cool it looks.

I currently have 14 different windows open in 3 workspaces- that's how I 
work.  Hunting between them in the overview is time consuming and it 
breaks my workflow, especially when switching back and forth between the 
same 3 windows for one task (which I do all the time).  If the tasks are 
open windows of the same application, I cant tell the difference between 
them.  For example, I have 4 terminals open and 2 firefox windows- I 
can't tell what is what without hovering over each one, which is very 
time consuming.

On 05/18/2010 02:37 PM, Apoorva Sharma wrote:
> On May 18, 2010, at 10:57 AM, Johannes Schmid<jhs jsschmid de>  wrote:
>
>    
> > Hi!
> >
> > Just to sum this topic up: I discussed this with owen on IRC and he
> > doesn't think it is a good idea and as such I won't waste my time on
> > it.
> >
> >      
> Would you please explain the reasoning behind the rejection of this
> idea?
>
> I feel that rejecting ideas without reasoning is not at all
> constructive, and only hinders innovation.
>
> I understand that Owen must have his reasons, but I think that these
> reasons should be made available to all proponents of this idea.
>
> Thanks
>
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