Re: [Usability] The Window List Applet

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 14:52, Gregory Merchan wrote:
> How about having only the minimized windows there?
> 
> We could have two mutually exclusive applets. One being the Window List I
> described, and the other an Icon Box that shows only iconified windows.
> 
> Both are very simple things and the interface should leave them as such.
> Merging the user-visible objects with a mode setting would be stupid;
> just think about the UI for it.

I've been hoping someone would sort this out, see:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84411
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81222

In particular  "------ Additional Comments From Havoc Pennington
2003-04-09 23:32"

I wonder if we shouldn't include multiple tabs in the same discussion;
for example, why aren't window list buttons reorderable, why don't they
display page load progress, etc. as tabs do.

Havoc