[Bug 896709] Re: Unity - selecting instances of a minimised application is not intuitive or simple

2012-05-14 Thread Derek Karpinski
The windows 7 task bar really gets this right. I love seeing previews of any windows I have, minimized or not, when I hover over the tile in the task bar. If Unity could implement that, we'd have a winner. The fact that windows brings that window to focus just by hovering, even switching tabs in

[Bug 896709] Re: Unity - selecting instances of a minimised application is not intuitive or simple

2011-12-02 Thread Chris
Sebastian: I don't personally minimise windows myself; I don't consider there is any real difference (functionally wrt to using the DE) between minimised windows and those that are hidden by another window. Some people do work this way however and I'm not sure that eliminating the feature compl

[Bug 896709] Re: Unity - selecting instances of a minimised application is not intuitive or simple

2011-12-02 Thread Omer Akram
I have added ayatana-design project as affects and set the status to incomplete as per unity bug triage convention. The status will be changed after we get input on this issue from Design. ** Changed in: unity Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed

[Bug 896709] Re: Unity - selecting instances of a minimised application is not intuitive or simple

2011-12-02 Thread Omer Akram
** Also affects: unity Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: ayatana-design Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/896709 Tit

[Bug 896709] Re: Unity - selecting instances of a minimised application is not intuitive or simple

2011-12-01 Thread Robert Bielski
This bug also affects me, a very good point made by Chris. Unity could use minor improvements such as those suggested when dealing with multiple instances of the same program. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bug

[Bug 896709] Re: Unity - selecting instances of a minimised application is not intuitive or simple

2011-11-28 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Thank you for your bug report, your summary seems to mix different issues. - dealing with minimized dialogs is an interesting case, gnome-shell decided to drop the minimize action from their ui, the recommended workflow there is to focus what you need rather than unfocs what you don't need, maybe

[Bug 896709] Re: Unity - selecting instances of a minimised application is not intuitive or simple

2011-11-27 Thread Walter Garcia-Fontes
Thanks for your answer Chris, I didn't interpret it at all as an attack to Unity. In my opinion managing a lot of opened windows in Gnome 2 was intuitive because having a bottom panel with links to them was the main paradigm since Windows 3.1, and it is really hard to change paradigms, new users no

[Bug 896709] Re: Unity - selecting instances of a minimised application is not intuitive or simple

2011-11-27 Thread bowser
I would just like to say that I agree with Chris. Since Unity is ostensibly designed to attract new users, I think the experience of new user (rather than Ubuntu veterans) should be paramount in this discussion. It is not uncommon even for relatively inexperienced computer users to say, open a b

[Bug 896709] Re: Unity - selecting instances of a minimised application is not intuitive or simple

2011-11-27 Thread Chris
Yes, I've considered Alt-Tab, Alt-` etc, and it's very good, however the original problem is unchanged: "selecting instances of a minimised application is not intuitive or simple" I'm not talking about what my preferences are, or what I think of Unity, I'm talking about new users who are having th

[Bug 896709] Re: Unity - selecting instances of a minimised application is not intuitive or simple

2011-11-26 Thread Walter Garcia-Fontes
Thanks for your input. Have you considered the ALT TAB functionality? Tabbing until the application with the multiple references is highlighted, pressing the down arrow will show previews of only those references, similar to Super W but only showing the windows associated with a specific applicatio

[Bug 896709] Re: Unity - selecting instances of a minimised application is not intuitive or simple

2011-11-26 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/896709 Title: Unity

[Bug 896709] Re: Unity - selecting instances of a minimised application is not intuitive or simple

2011-11-26 Thread Chris
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