Idea: Window management for 4.5

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On January 31, 2010, Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé - Developer wrote:> About merging 
systray- and window-menu: I think that is not a good idea,
> because we have enough space to plase two easily accessible menus, the
> menus do not fit together (application/window controlling)

i don't think this is a distinction most users are capable of reliably making. 
this is why the dock concept as see on *Step and MacOS works at all, it seems 
:)

> and there would be too long menus.

submenus menus from growing too long. and if the application's window is in a 
state that it wouldn't show on the task bar (e.g. amarok's main window is 
closed) then we'd end up with exactly the same representation we get in the 
system tray today (just the one menu) with the added benefit that "amarok" is 
always represented in the same place.

if we merged quicklaunch with it, we'd have a dock implementation for all 
intents and purposes. personally, i think that should be a different widget 
because it really is a different workflow entirely, but it is similar in the 
sense of trying to aggregate information about an application rather than 
segregate it.

the notifications thing is interesting because it is really hard to aggregate 
that information with other application representations effectively due to 
their size, frequency and temporary nature.

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