----- Ursprüngliche Mitteilung ----- > 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. I'm really, really against docks. Mac has constructed their complete workflow around the dock system. Their window system supports it - our dosn't. The best we can get is a bad copy and we can do better. Let's not copy the dock but make tasks bar better.
Cheers Martin > > > 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 _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
