On Friday 09 April 2010, Markus wrote: > Thanks for your comments. I'd like to further share my reasons for the > decisions. > > Am Freitag 09 April 2010 19:59:28 schrieb Marco Martin: > > i think however the exposè effect has more informational value > > As someone who used Mac OS X for years, I know Exposé inside out. > I also know that when I wanted to switch whole apps (even if it were only > three or so) with many windows, the practical aspect shrunk. > I also remember that using it with a touchpad only was very cumbersome. > > My reason for including both -- Exposé and menu -- was that the user can > adapt his/her workflow according to the attached input devices rather than > the capabilities of GPU and drivers. > > > a crappy > > device is supposed to not have garzillions of apps open at the same time > > btw > > Well, it's not our decision what the user runs, right? ;-) > Today's netbooks are more powerful than the iBook I bought 6 years ago and > I've seen market data that indicates that not so few people buy netbooks as > their only PCs and even Atom CPUs advance. Who knows how powerful these > machines get 2 years from now.
as Artur said, tests with joe sixpack users is quite rare. other users can add a real taskbar or use a desktop shell, if their use of the device is actually what would be a desktop (since the use case of the netbook shell is quite different) i could mke configurable to always use the list, however. > That's why I thought that the user should still be able to conveniently > switch between 10 apps that add to 50 windows -- whether we think it's a > good idea or not. > > > there was a reason for the strange layout we have now: > > the close and maximize buttons are epected to be at right, > > Correct me if I'm wrong but from everything I saw of Plasma Netbook, there > weren't any close or maximize buttons at all. no buttons when plasma itself is focused, they appear when an application is focused > > and i think it's > > really weird if as in your screenshot those buttons are separed from the > > applet that gives the title, even if they could mae sense at opposite > > sides of the screen. > > Given that it's all Plasma, I thought that all positions can be changed > anyway if the user decides. > I also thought to mirror Mac OS 9's layout where the close button was on > the left and a similar menu was on the right. > <http://wrds.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/mac_os_9_screenshot_2.png> at the moment no, because the close/maximize and the title are the same applet Cheers, Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel