remove or keep the activity view in the window list

Thomas Pfeiffer colomar at autistici.org
Fri Sep 23 12:17:54 UTC 2011


On Friday 23 September 2011 13:41:50 Marco Martin wrote:
> On Friday 23 September 2011, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > > ok, let's run with it as-is for now and i'll play a bit today with
> > > how
> > > the activity view is presented in the listing.
> > 
> > I'd also vote for keeping the homescreen in the window strip (or what
> > was
> > the official word for it? We definitely need to get our glossary written
> > down soon!), for the reasons Marco mentioned: The homescreen should not
> 
> +1 ;) probably something like peek or task peek since the whole panel would
> be peek and launch

I think Aaron already had ideas about the names, we just all (including 
himself) kept confusing them during the sprint ;)
 
> > feel like something different from applications (even more so the more
> > we'll be moving away from the application concept in general).
> > 
> > Another thing: I'd really like to see the ability to switch back to the
> > last window shown when pressing the homescreen-button to the right of
> > the
> > bar again after switching to the homescreen. Being able to switch back
> > and forth between homescreen and application easily would be pretty
> > nice imo.
> would let a really fast workflow yeah :)
> (wouldn't there be problems with a button that changes its function btw?)

Maybe we'd need to change the icon to indicate that, but I'm not sure. Compare 
it to alt-tab. It switches both ways between to windows as well.


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