remove or keep the activity view in the window list

[Marco Martin]

On Friday 23 September 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Friday, September 23, 2011 14:17:54 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> > 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 ;)
> 
> i had personally settled on "home screen". it's what it is often called on
> other devices, it's where you start off at, etc. however, Fania was not
> happy with that name, so i'm in a bit of a limbo over it :)
> 
> Fania used the term "activity view" which is good for me. we do need to get
> consensus on this VERY soon, however.

uuh, i'm confused now: that's for the name of the main screen or the sliding 
panel? ;)

> > > > 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.
> 
> i don't want to work on this anymore for Plasma Active One, since the best
> idea i can think of requires a lot more work. what would be nice is for it
> to become a software version of the "Back" button seen on many phones
> these days.
> 
> iow, it would send a message to the current app, if any, to go "back" one
> step; if the app does not have anything to "back" to (or doesn't support
> this) then it would return you to the home screen.
> 

i think is a good idea, we could give a try for pa2 ;)
-- 
Marco Martin