Re: Some thoughts about window management

[Yaron Tausky <decaycell gmail com>]

On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 17:00 +0300, Yaron Tausky wrote:
> 1. The context menu for tasks in the taskbar is not very helpful. Most
> of the functions it offers are rarely used (rollup, anyone?), even
> though it's the best place to put the most used ones, since it's always
> accessible (as the panel is always visible). I suggest that some sort of
> API would be implemented to allow the application developers to add
> app-specific functions to that menu, and put all the window management
> stuff under a "Window management" submenu. This will allow the user to
> easily access useful functions (e.g. "Play" or "Pause" for a music
> player, "New message..." for an e-mail client, etc.). The "Close"
> function should stay in the main menu, as that is the most used function
> for that menu anyway (otherwise, I suspect most apps will implement it
> themselves).

I gimped up a little mockup to show exactly what I mean, as I believe
this would be a major upgrade to current panel functionality:

http://www.geocities.com/decaycell/mockup.png
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Yaron Tausky <decaycell gmail com>