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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: What if the taskbar...
From:       Christopher Layne <clayne () anodized ! com>
Date:       2004-08-19 15:55:19
Message-ID: 20040819155519.GO15978 () ns1 ! anodized ! com
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Visual recognition works better with visual patterns.

Having patterns that constantly change dynamically (i.e.
the taskbar sub-bar positions) would render the taskbar
to be somewhat pointless and a visual/mousey equivalent
of alt-tab.

-cl

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 09:44:02AM -0600, Gabe Johnson wrote:
> My cubemate is using icewm, and he has hacked it so that the entries
> in his taskbar are in the visual horizontal order that the windows
> appear on his screen. This makes some sense, given that spacial
> ordering is more cogent than temporal ordering. Anyway, I haven't used
> it but it really works well for him.
> 
> gabe
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