How about merging the application title bar into the activities bar, the current clock which is in the center can be moved far right. In this way, we could utilize all the available space of the monitor for a given application. It is almost like working full screen! Then the traditional File - Edit - View menu will be integrated into the activities bar - better than the implementation of OSx's.
My another suggestion is that first, the primary goal of the "Add to favorite" feature of the gnome-shell is that we can run our application as quickly as possible by clicking the icon. The icon is glowed(if I use this term correctly) if it was already running(my current compiled version doesn't glow), however if there are so many instances of the application, the same problem occurs of what window to select and this will take time which will defeat the goal of quickly switching between windows. I have here the screenshot of what may look like if I hover the mouse cursor over the icon.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_22mgGC0kvQY/S_YXA_Z8SGI/AAAAAAAAAB8/03twzsf4or8/s1600/ScreenshotGnome-Shell.png
----- Original Message -----
From: "Apoorva Sharma" <appi2012 gmail com>
To: "Allan E. Registos" <allan registos smpc steniel com ph>
Cc: gnome-shell-list gnome org
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 10:45:20 AM
Subject: Re: Task Panel
Have you notice that if we have too much windows in each workspaces, the windows(too many of them) are getting tinier and it is difficult to know and select the right window.
One solution which would fix all problems with window switching in gnome-shell would be to tab together windows of each application through the window manager, ala google chrome.
This would limit the amount of windows open, and the windows shown in the overviews would look sufficiently different to allow for easy, quick switching, since they would all be different applications.
This would greatly minimize the amount of windows shown in the overview.
However, I think that when a user right-clicks on the application in the application menu, the application window which included all of the tabbed windows should break apart, thus allowing more specific window selection through the overview.
See my original idea here:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2010-February/msg00071.html
