Re: Testing & A Suggestion :)

["Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" <famrom idecnet com>]

robsc dingoblue net au (2000-11-23 at 1159.13 +1100):
> 1) I joined the list yesterday, and theres been no signs of life! is
> anyone out there?

It depends. Some weeks there are lot of activity, others nothing.

> Anyway, Whistler had a nice idea (which, was later clarified in posts,
> as a 'stole-from-BeOS' feature) regarding its tasklist.
> 	If there were numerous copies of a windows open (e.g. in their
> screenshots , IE) - instead of having a clutter of them, it made a
> single entry in the tasklist, that was a drop-up list with more
> details (presumeably - I didn't find a screenshot where it was
> actually dropped up) about the program.

I wonder if people use viewports / desktops and organize window using
that. Maybe we should advertise that feature more. Another thing that
should be give more publicity is that you can change task bar size...
and in general, that you can configure your interface to suit your
needs (I hope this to keep on in the future as new options are added,
not new fixed things).

That is the current solution, and it seems to work, let suppose we use
the drop down one, what happens if I have 30 windows of the same (I do
not, I think my record for one viewport is 15 and of two or three
types)? You still have problems choosing which one... but you can at
least read the titles.  Not bad, but also fixable if your task bar is
set to pratical sizes (mine is 256 pixels wide, and height as needed,
placed in a side panel).

The Whistler bar can also be seen in Sawfish menu (taken from BeOS
too, IIRC), and it is nice when you have few windows, when you have
lots, you are still hunting down which window you want.

So I think the idea is nice, at least when you have more than a few
window but not a lot. I guess that covers most users. I would still
preffer no to use that, so as option (and maybe default one) would be
nice.

> 	Personally, I think this would be a great addition to the
> deskguide/tasklist: It takes a while to find windows now, if you have
> several workspaces going on (flipping through each window). Any
> suggestions, replies to this Idea? 

Maybe you should use workspace in a logical manner, ie: this for
Netscape, that one for wordprocessing (or any other system your mind
like: colors, first letter of window title, order of launch...).

> Also, can we make the gnome panel more keyboard friendly? (Thats a
> really ambiguous question, but I don't know any way of using they
> keyboard to get at a panel).

GNOME panel"s", some people have multiple... so not only how to
navigate the applets, buttons and such, but how to choose which panel.
Make the panels focusable like the rest of windows?

GSR