Re: [Usability] Default Panel Layout

["Diego Moya (a.k.a. TuringTest)" <turingt gmail com>]

On 14/06/05, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> I've noticed that Fedora and Ubuntu use the horizontal "Window List"
> applet instead of the vertical mac-style "Window Selector" applet. I've
> always found this useless, and I guessed that maybe those distros used
> it because it's similar to Windows, where it's also useless. But I
> noticed at GUADEC that some people actually use it, so I guess I'm
> wrong.

The windows list is far from useless. It constantly shows on screen
the list of all open applications, while the vertical mac-style
selector has to be clicked to see which are its contents. That's the
reason why I prefer it, usually with the "grouping windows from the
same app" option disabled.