GTK+ and QT need to learn from Windows 7's Superbar

[Skripka]

Eh, I wasnt too impressed by the "superbar".

It gets a "2" on my Meh-o-meter.

[Giant Speck]

It gets a "2" on my Meh-o-meter.

On a scale of what to what, with which what being the most meh?

[SunnyRabbiera]

I really like the new taskbar (superbar?)

it makes it less cluttered, instead of having 3 taskbar entries for the GIMP for example, you just have the gimp icon, click it, and then you can select the window you want. I think its genius personally, and would love a gnome port of it. Just because microsoft made it doesn't mean its automatically a bad idea.

Me I prefer an old fashioned taskbar, the OSX like taskbar of windows 7 does not impress.

[wersdaluv]

Just the superbar's mouse hover animation. take it easy

[swoll1980]

doesn't awn group duplicate apps under the same icon, or no?

[Giant Speck]

Just the superbar's mouse hover animation. take it easy

Your basically talking about the glow effect that the superbar buttons make when you move the cursor over them, right?

[wersdaluv]

Yeppp. That's why I'm talking about animations of toolkits.

[geoken]

Yeppp. That's why I'm talking about animations of toolkits.

I think he's also referring to the way the box that holds the thumbnails shifts and resizes (if a entry has more/less windows than the last) with a smooth animation.

[Vince4Amy]

I hated the Super Bar and was quite annoyed that there's no "Classic" option.

[mangar]

The problem with fancy animations is that they only impress for the first 30 minutes, and than it fades to the background.

That's one of the reasons Compiz doesn't really impress anyone - there are only few truly useful plugins (imho: scale, expose, shadows). The rest of them are just toys.

As for "stealing" ideas - everything is evolutionary, if you learn from others, you won't advance very far. (how an idea can be "stolen" anyway? Even patents are time limited). (Cairo-dock, docky, awn, kool-dock, kxdocker, spanel, and CDE shows that there's ample interest in docks, btw).

The superbar is great, btw. gnome+kde are pretty stale.