2007/6/9, Alex Graveley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > But, I mostly run the gimmie-applet version these days anyway, which > doesn't have a live object list. I'm interested to see if people are > still using the standalone gimmie-dock. Do people still run it?
Yes! I run it because it supports the metaphor that there's one place to click on to get, for example, the music player. It abstracts away from the concept of an application running or not. When I installed Ubuntu on my Moms computer I at first put icons on the desktop for Internet and Music player. She would start the music player (which doesn't use the full screen, and then firefox. Then she wanted to listen to different music. I showed her how to use minimize to get the firefox window out of the way. That way the found the music player. When she wanted to switch to firefox again, she just started another instance by clicking on the desktop icon again, and of course the web site that was open in the minimized firefox window wasn't there. That was the point where I decided to install gimmie on her computer. It works well. I myself am using it too, because I have a lot of applications running (ff, some nautilus windows, terminal, muine, thunderbird, gvim, ooo) and finding the right window with alt-tab or the standard application switcher it just too tedious for me. So, please continue supporting the stand-alone mode! (Just a little grievance: it leaks memory. After some days without restart, it eats ~400 VIRT and ~200 RES.) Markus -- Markus Bertheau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Blog: http://www.bluetwanger.de/blog/ _______________________________________________ gimmie-list mailing list [email protected] http://lists.beatniksoftware.com/listinfo.cgi/gimmie-list-beatniksoftware.com
