GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 648994
Put application icons over window thumbnails in the window switcher
Last modified: 2012-03-26 07:08:53 UTC
http://img64.imageshack.us/f/appicon.jpg/ tell me what you think
(In reply to comment #0) > http://img64.imageshack.us/f/appicon.jpg/ > > tell me what you think We had that in the past (the icon was in the lower left corner) and removed it later.
i think that when there's a lot of windows a big icon can help to find the right windows. ps :the position was only for test.
Created attachment 186927 [details] extension version now it's an extension
@drago01: why have you removed it? pls consider reanablying it, it's really useful to a lot of user
Comment on attachment 186927 [details] extension version You need to refactor it as a git-format-patch against gnome-shell-extensions if you want to integrate it. Also, I think icons are better in some corner (lower-left?) of the thumbnail, not halfway at the top.
Created attachment 187056 [details] [review] git -format-patch output icon now are on right lower corner
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Please consider that some users requires to open lot of applications at the same time, then thumbnail is useless. See bug 651022 first part.
useless?
Yes, are too small to identify an application or the required thumbnail to swith to. See attachment (id=188546) of bug 651022 to see what I mean.
sorry now i understand. what about work on icon size ? icon can be like dash icon if size since size is too small then we can make it grow proportion with windows preview size.
Yes. The icon could enlarge automatically when the mouse is over the thumbnail.
i don't think icon resize on mouse over can be a solution. We need to find a way to let people to choose right app without look all window one per time
I would really like to see this in Gnome-Shell proper rather than just as an extension. It applies directly to usability.
i have few time , if you post some screenshot with new idea i will try to develop it when possible
Created attachment 189034 [details] Mockup for mouse over thumbnail with app'icon In This muckup you can see lot of applications thumbnail showed by Activities View with app icon, one of them is larger because it (suppose) has mouse over it. The problem here is that still the user can't see if this is the window he/she requires because the thumbnail size. Then may to arranging App Centric seudo-toolbar on top or bottom of Activities View, with app icon, where if the user moves over it, all app's windows are shown with lucky the size is enough to identify the required window. The problem doesn't finish here, because eventually the user falls in the problem showed by ALT+TAB behavior showed by bug #608946.
*** Bug 651953 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Did this bug go dead? Any way of getting the extension in the git?
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This seems to have stopped working in Gnome-shell 3.2 Get that an init is missing in lg. Any chance of getting this official in the extension area?
try to set your shell version in metadata.json. i'm not sure if it can work with gnome-shell 3.2.
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Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 634599 ***