Re: [Usability] The Window List Applet

[Gregory Merchan <merchan phys lsu edu>]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 06:14:58PM +0200, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Gregory Merchan wrote:
> 
> > > So personally I'd much rather have the raised windows in the truncated
> > > buttons, and the minimized windows in regular-sized ones :)
> >
> > How about having only the minimized windows there?
> 
> That way we would avoid feature duplication with the window menu as well.
> But, also take a look at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115699,
> where I plead for merging the window menu and window list.

I didn't, and I doubt the other respondents did, read that as merging the
applets. It does make me wonder why the menubar of Apple's OSes didn't
post menus on mouseover.


> > We could have two mutually exclusive applets. One being the Window List I
> > described, and the other an Icon Box that shows only iconified windows.
> 
> You mean like the Minimized Window Viewer from the Workplace Shell? [1]
> =)
> 
> [1] http://www.os2ezine.com/v1n5/exploit.html

Or the Icon Box from MWM, Enlightenment, and probably a few others.


Cheers,
Greg

P.S. - still working on another reply in this thread, decided to go ahead
       and send this one on.