On 15 Sep 2009, at 01:41, Frank Middleton wrote: > How about the ability to navigate through the applications menu and > others by right clicking on the background? IMO what you get now is > useless. > > Something else we seem to have lost is the ability to group windows > and drag/minimize/delete them as a group. > > If you have more than a trivial number of windows open, the window > list becomes quite useless. In fact you could eliminate the panels > entirely by using the ability to click on the background with all > three mouse buttons. A sort of minimalist desktop :). Might be nice > to get rid of all those useless icons on the background as well...
You can already remove the background icons, in a couple of different ways (depending on exactly which, if any, desktop background functionality you want to retain). > Who hasn't lost a window by having it end up outside the visible > area? The Window selector should have a drag option much like > right-clicking on a window list icon does now. > > Add these together and you'd have a nice icon free desktop. Well, many or most of these are things you could get back just by replacing metacity with a different EWMH-compliant window manager[1], and I'd certainly like to see more alternatives in the package repos myself. (I don't specifically know which one might provide the combination of features you'd like, though.) Cheeri, Calum. [1] A list of possibilities is here: <http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/wm-spec > -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com OpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
