Re: Idea: Window management for 4.5

2010-02-01 Thread Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé - Developer
> i don't think this is a distinction most users are capable of reliably > making. this is why the dock concept as see on *Step and MacOS works at > all, it seems When I use MacOS X I have always problems to find some windows, the dock does not help me, alt+tab does not help me and spaces+exposé a

Re: Idea: Window management for 4.5

2010-01-31 Thread Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé - Developer
> I mean that (if user enable option to connect notifications with tasks) > when there is new notification, then icon (own if cannot be connected with > window or that shared with task entry) starts for example blinking and > notification (as widget with information) is shown after clicking on icon

Re: Idea: Window management for 4.5

2010-01-31 Thread Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé - Developer
> > associated with an app) and would, as Marco noted, mean that if i want to > > see "that notification" i'd no longer have a well define place for that > > to happen. What do you do with notifications like "new message", "xyz requested kwallet", "abc finished"? Either they are annoying and you w

Re: Idea: Window management for 4.5

2010-01-30 Thread Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé - Developer
Hi! But when you want to keep notifications alive, see the status etc., a central place is not very comfortable, for example you want to switch to Dolphin after copying has been finished. Or you may want to switch to the application, close it or access its systray-menu, because you have seen the

Re: Idea: Window management for 4.5

2010-01-29 Thread Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé - Developer
Please remove the other message!!! > I like the idea of getting rid of systray icons (or taskbar entries), > whenever systray icons also manage windows (amarok, kopete, ...). However, > having one behaviour to icon and another for text would possibly confuse > users, even because it's not very dis

Re: Idea: Window management for 4.5

2010-01-29 Thread Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé
> I like the idea of getting rid of systray icons (or taskbar entries), > whenever systray icons also manage windows (amarok, kopete, ...). However, > having one behaviour to icon and another for text would possibly confuse > users, even because it's not very discoverable. E.g. you could add a thin