On 16 Apr 2007, at 11:51, brian muhumuza wrote: > The issue i see with minimizing to the overlay is that the object > is 4 clicks away, 1 click to open the overlay, 2 clicks to bring it > back to the desktop, 1 to dismiss the overlay.
No necessarily, if corner activations are used to activate the overlay. This would mean just some long drags and wrist-flicking action. One thing I proposed on SILC a few days ago, that I would like to see is minimisation being removed as an action, and instead allowing windows/objects dragged past the edge of the screen turned into tabs (as was possible with folders on MacOS Classic). This has several advantages: 1) It can be done very quickly by a user (wrist-flick the window at an edge) 2) It gives a lot of space to put minimised windows in (all edges of the screen except the top) 3) It is easy to un-minimise, since you get the aiming-for-the-edge- of-the-screen bonus to Fitts' Law. 4) I like it. David _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
