Re: Treatment for Minimized Windows on GNOME Shell

[Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan club fr>]

Le mercredi 24 novembre 2010 à 21:55 +0800, Allan Caeg a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> 
> We really have to define the treatment for minimized windows. Thought
> there's a discussion going on regarding the possibility of ditching
> the minimize window feature, we'll have to define this unless the
> minimize feature is gone for real. After all, getting rid of that
> feature *can* be counter-productive. 
> 
> 
> I proposed earlier that we can do something like the OS X approach
> (http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/2829/minimizem.png ). However, we
> might have to forget about that. The comparison between OS X and GNOME
> 3 isn't Apples to Apples. The OS X dock behaves differently from the
> Dash on Overview.
> 
> 
> We can differentiate them in the Exposé view. A possible execution
> would be this http://d.imagehost.org/0672/minimize2.png . 
> 
> 
> What do you think?
If they are treated differently than other windows, I think they should
be /really/ smaller, e.g. by only showing their labels (because making
thumbnails really small would mean they would be hard to identify).

Just my two cents.