Re: My opinions on Gnome Shell

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 10:18 +0300, Pasha R wrote:
> >>> I believe the number of people that need minimizing vastly outnumber
> >>those who don't.
> > I don't believe anyone needs minimizing. Why are you minimizing windows?
> > Windows can go to the back of the stack - where they interfere with nothing
> > - or be dumped on another workspace. I don't see any reason to have an
> > invisible application running. That sounds like it should be reimplemented
> > as a session service.
> That is very simple. Temporary, I don't want that application to
> interfere with what I'm doing, but I don't want to close it
> completely, because I'll need it in its current state later. For
> example, I minimize browser when I'm working, but I want to return to
> it fast when I want to take a break.

That sounds entirely to me like "task" management, not "window"
management.  But the take-a-break windows in their own workspace;  task
management is the purpose of workspaces.