RE: Some thoughts about window management

[ml thaarna com]

> The problem with this idea is that a small button would visually
> "get lost" between the longer labeled buttons -- we don't gain
> anything if the user has to scan the taskbar a second or so, to
> look for the small buttons.
> My suggestion was not to build another taskbar applet, but rather
> to add a feature to the current one, and then have two instances of
> it running -- one for each purpose.

Maybe you could right align iconified apps on the same taskbar. This way you
would find small icons easily and avoid a complicated interface.
Labeled, iconified or whatever, they are just running apps and should be found
in the same place.

-E-