View Full Version : Unity with window-centric launcher
Oxwivi
May 7th, 2011, 01:56 PM
The current launcher in Unity is app-centric - i.e. instead of window controls (open a new window, minimize window, etc.), it shows the windows of the application.
If the launcher was window-centric like the classic GNOME panel is, how would you imagine it to function (e.g. window previews like Windows 7 taskbar, what sort of animations referring to a window, etc.)?
Copper Bezel
May 7th, 2011, 05:03 PM
The trouble is that it's not a hypothetical. = ) In the world of Linux docks, Unity's launcher is just weird in that it doesn't include a window list.
The only dock I know of that supports window previews is DockBarX, and I personally find them distracting and less than useful (but they're an option.) DockBarX, though, shows a window list for a given application and can include a close button and use of scrolling to minimize and maximize (or whatever binding makes sense.) That's fairly window-centric. (Some nice application-centric features, too, though, in the dock jump lists.)
Avant Window Navigator does have the weirdly window-centric option of not grouping windows of the same application, but this is impractical in a dock because (1) a dock contains more items than a taskbar and (2) without captions, separated windows are indistinguishable without hovering to show their previews or captions, anyway.
sffvba[e0rt
May 7th, 2011, 05:08 PM
I like the fact that the launcher gives me options to use rather than showing me what I will be seeing anyway :)
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