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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: What if the taskbar...
From:       Christoph Wiesen <chris () deadhand ! com>
Date:       2004-08-19 8:45:15
Message-ID: 200408191045.15865.chris () deadhand ! com
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I'd strongly oppose this - please re-consider this idea. Of course one can't 
stop change, but hey... I'll try:

A location where the windows are sorted by recent usage that's available with 
the mouse would be good, but not at the expense of the current task bar.
The taskbar is _the_ place for orientation for many users, be they new ones or 
veterans, and thus they depend on the taskbar showing what they expect;
Open a window and it shows on taskbar - on the next available free space. Open 
another one and it shows behind that.
Now if your change would be implemented this order would get changed with 
every opening of a window - thus quickly changing between two windows would 
be quite hard and confusing for many new users - it's much like moving the 
mouse cursor without user interaction: The new kmix in KDE 3.3 does it when 
you click on it by default - this isn't nice and breaks the "flow" of 
movement for many users - similarly constant change of taskbar locations 
would break the "flow" for many people...

Another reason is the grouping issue  you already stated of course.

Personally I'd say just add a small little applett users can load into kicker 
- a button that opens the ALT-TAB menu. Couldn't be any easier and it would 
be pretty consistent with ALT-TAB (since it's the same). I guess most people 
who've written something for KDE could do something like that in a minute. 

Am Thursday, 19. August 2004 08:41 schrieb Maurizio Colucci:
> Just a thought.
>
> What if the taskbar sorted the windows by recent usage? I mean, like
> ALT+TAB does? Of course, also the list that pops up with taskbar grouping
> should be sorted like that.
>
> If you are in favour, please vote at
>
>   http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87421
>
> Mau
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