Re: [Usability] Taking Advantage of Spatial Memory with the GS Window Picker

Johannes Schmid <[email protected]> Mon, 06 Dec 2010 13:58:30 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.shell,gmane.comp.gnome.usability
Message-ID <1291640310.3583.2.camel@idefix>
Hi!

> I was thinking of having a fixed size placeholder for each window.
> It's going to look like this
> http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/9751/mockupc.png

This imposes the problem that some windows (those that are very wide or
high) become very small. Anyway, in the last days using gnome-shell I
have been thinking about a possible solution for it.

It would be nice if mouse-over in the overview would (after some delay,
say 0.5s) zoom into the selected window to about 70% of the overview
size so the user can easier identify a window. Some windows just look
very similar (for example if you opened multiple terminals).

Just my 2 cents,
Johannes