On Saturday, 26 February, 2011 04:36 AM, Gendre Sebastien wrote:
Greate idea. But I think it's a heavy design. No?
It's need other review than mine, but I think it's a good start.
Le jeudi 24 février 2011 à 11:24 -0800, coulamac a écrit :
Perhaps an alternative way to hide windows is to have a dedicated "shelf" workspace for windows to be placed for later use. Rather than a minimize button, there could be a little shelf icon button on the window's title bar.
I am very confuse, how can we change something ( minimize
-> shelf) when the function is the same??? I suggest that
minimize button should and stay the same.
_______________________________________________________
|[shelf] [x]|
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When you hit the shelf button, the window would be transferred from the current workspace to the shelf workspace, which would be visible from the Activities overlay view.
Then, it should literally take two-steps before you can
access those minimized (shelved) windows since it is only visible
by pressing the super key or hovering your mouse over to
activities against GNOME 2.x's accessing it directly in the panel.
What a backward concept!
(You might want to give the shelf workspace a different background, like a wooden bookshelf picture, to differentiate it from the other workspaces.)
In addition, you might want to offer a visible shortcut
---> one click to visible shortcut = one step(and you have
not yet activated that window) is equivalent to GNOME 2.x's one
click to the minimized "window" itself and you have activated that
window.
for users to quickly get back a window placed in the shelf workspace. A shelf icon button on the panel next to the Activities button could bring up an overlay view of the shelf workspace only, and the user could bring back one or more shelved windows to the current workspace just by clicking on the windows in the shelf overlay view.
As I said, the minimized/shelfed windows must be accessed
one-step(take your cursor to the shelved/minimized button and
click no two clicks please), two steps is a no no.
Panel:
_________________________________________________________
[Activities][shelf][current app menu]
_________________________________________________________
To help the user track where the window went, the window could animate to the shelf button before disappearing from the screen.
The user could also get the shelved window by clicking on the Activities button and moving a shelved window from the self workspace to one of the other workspaces.
This way, we would still be working within the workspace paradigm, but users would have a quicker way to hide and unhide their windows than just using the Activities view.
Thanks for reading.
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