apps: launching/switching/adding to activities

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 11:52:55 Marco Martin wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 June 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> what about still having a single window, but instead of the systray moving,
> progressively uncovering the things under the systray?

i bet that will feel very artificial. what's the purpose of keeping they 
system tray at the top of the screen? i have a device here at the house that 
drags down the icons when you drag that area of the screen and it feels very 
'solid' from a feels-natural perspective. i must be missing something as to 
why keeping those particular icon in that particular place at all times is 
critical?

> > putting the running windows above the launchers may make more sense from
> > a number of angles:
> > 
> > * lets me see if something is already running before launching
> > * since the contents of the launchers may change due to search, it will
> > keep all the content snug and more consistently laid out if the
> > non-changing (window list) is above the changing (launchers)
> 
> putting the tasks under the rest was decided at tokamak for a reason:
> peeking trough the task.
> is now possible by dragging just a little bit to uncover just the tasks and
> not the rest to have a small taskbar that doesn't cover the whole screen.

right, i remember that discussion now as well. 

well, then let's leave it this way for now and get user feedback on it. e.g. 
does anyone end up using it this way...

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