Re: GNOME 2.0 feedback

[Bruce Robert Pocock <brpocock 10east com>]

On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 10:33, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On 23 Jul 2002, Bruce Robert Pocock wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 09:07, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > > What do you mean? If you drop the thumbnail in the same workspace the 
> > > > thumbnail will return to the previous position.
> > 
> > My thought was: if I drag the thumbnail/icon, nothing happens on the
> > screen, but the thumbnail appears to be moving... in earlier versions,
> > the thumbnail and the "real" window were in sync.
> > 
> > Playing with it a bit, I'm withdrawing the first-blush opinion that this
> > was a UI inconsistency, though; it does seem to operate pretty
> > naturally, unless you come to it with the expectations I had from 1.4.
> > 
> > > > Do you mean that if you drag a window from another workspace into the 
> > > > current one the window should appear? 
> > > 
> > > Before you release the drag button i mean.
> > 
> > Actually, some kind of "hint" would be nice. I hadn't actually thought
> > of that :-)
> >
> > In a perfect universe of unlimited resources, I'd think about having
> > e.g. a "shadow window" of partial opacity, or even just a grey
> > rectangle, show where the window would be dropped... but the effort
> > seems greatly disproportionate to the potential reward. I'll add that to
> > my list of "wouldn't it be neat-o to beat up on Aqua" :-)
> 
> An outline perhaps, but that's still somewhat hard to do.
> 
> Another thing that may help the usability of the pager would be if the 
> window you moused over prelighted in the pager. This way it might be 
> easier to pick the right window. Right now it can be hard for small 
> windows.
> 
> Some sort of zooming would perhaps work too, but it sounds a bit hard to 
> get right. I mean, where do you zoom it to? and when?
> 
Zooming, in line with the Enlightenment pager? ...or more like the old
MacOS "this window is opening" zoom boxes?