On Thursday, February 3, 2011, alex.tolar wrote: > Good night everybody, > > I'm not using Windows since Ubuntu Dapper Drake, and Macintosh since before > the colored iMacs: can't care less. Win7, OsX, Gnome3, Unity and many > minor distros adopted a Dock: maybe not for a fool reason at all. I'm not
well, tbh, it's something like this: * MacOS uses a dock * it becomes an object of desire * Microsoft freaks out, does what it does: copies * Canonical wants to become an object of desire, mimics Mac in many ways i don't think there's been a lot of critical thinking about dock usage. in fact, the mac dock was roundly criticized when it came out by usability folks. i'm not dead set against a dock, but i am against doing something because it's a trend. and with docks, that's what we have here. > possibilities and polish. The great game, probably, is setting then the > defaults. :) yes :) > http://simplest-image-hosting.net/png-0-bitterock > About having an icon-only launcher/task manager on the panel: there are 3 > GREAT benefits: > 1) Single-instance applications > - Why having 4 Dolphins instances when you have tabs support? because i -want- two windows open? > Talking also about memory resources! many multi-window apps are single process these days. > - It's not pleasant to accidentally run 2 instances of Amarok or Skype amarok is a single instance app, skype is just plain broken. > 2) Friendly to touchscreens, which are probably the future. if the number of items is kept to a minimum, yes. > 3) Last, but not least: ditching the Application status icons! that's doable with the current tasks widget as well, so this isn't a benefit of a dock. > About Tool Box > - There's a huge practical problem with the Tool Box: it must not be > covered by windows. That's a good reason (and a good idea!) why it should > be moved to Krunner. it configures something that is covered by windows though :) keeping controls contextual is important imo > - could be a bonus to automatically launch Krunner > when switching to a Dashboard? interesting idea to try out... -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks
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