On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Toki Tahmid <[email protected]> wrote: > This is NOT a suggestion to turn launcher window-centric, just a thread to > discuss how it'd be.
Essentially a window-centric launcher is an oxymoron because "launch" always means "application", but read on. > On 7 May 2011 23:06, Toki Tahmid <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I don't know why everyone's making an assumption that I suggest something >> like preview of Windows 7's taskbar, but I want to make it clear it's just >> an example. I'm not making any assumptions, please read more closely. I brought up the windows 7 task bar because it's the only mainstream implementation of a fusion of taskbar and dock. However as I pointed out in the default configuration it is actually a plain app-centric launcher and only has secondary window-centric elements. Much closer comes the non-default win7 taskbar that has app-launcher icons that expand to window-icons which are grouped by application. One step is probably missing though, see this mockup http://i.imgur.com/YwMeg.png from http://pastehtml.com/view/1e1uiox.html I think that's the best implementation of taskbar meats dock offering all functions of both without sacrificing too much. But I'm not sure that's what you after. You are asking for a primary window-centric launcher. That doesn't exist, it's not possible to do without turning the launcher into something else, i.e. back into a taskbar. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
