RE: [Usability]Keeping the Quit menu item

[Wesley Leggette <wleggette gate net>]

On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 08:14, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ettore Perazzoli [mailto:ettore ximian com] 
> > > I don't think the app-without-windows thing is dependent on 
> > the Dock. It
> > > worked fine in the Classic MacOS - personally, I think the 
> > Dock does a worse
> > > job of representing this.
> > 
> > Yeah, but in Classic you had the app menu in the upper right corner
> > which served the same app-switching purpose as the dock.  We 
> > don't have
> > that either.
> 
> It doesn't always work perfectly, but I think of GNOME's uppe-right
> menu-panel menu (what's the correct name) like this. It shows what apps are
> running, and lets me switch to one. What more should it do?

This isn't true. The menu-panel in the top right corner displays a
replica of the taskbar contents in each workspace. It is supposed to
display applications, but gnome doesn't have any way of distinguishing
applications vs. windows.

> 
> Murray Cumming
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