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Actually, unity has that feature where if you drag a window towards the side of the monitor, it'll tile to one half instead of the full monitor. What really bu

Actually, unity has that feature where if you drag a window towards the side of the monitor, it'll tile to one half instead of the full monitor. What really bugs me is the dumb launch menu. I think it's pretty much the same idea as the one on macs. Who the hell decided that it was a good idea to group applications together? Why is everyone (win7 also) following suit? It's dumb to extrapolate that just because two windows are from the same application that I'm using them for the same task and want them grouped together. It's also dumb that when I give one look at the bar I can't immediately tell what is open. I have to consciously scan all the way down. Finally, I hate the additional click it brings when I have to pick between two windows of the same app. Does anyone really know how anyone decided on this? I'll stop complaining when they let me disable it.

hasenj 16y ago
This is the first release. Consider it a glorified MVP. It's not that this is the greatest idea ever! It's more like, given the constraints and the available options, this option has enough goodness to out-weigh the badness. The grouping of multiple windows from the same application together is the only major problem I find with this setup, and even then it's not so major. It can probably be solved by providing a keyboard-shortcut to cycle current application windows. Overall I like the launcher very much. In fact, it's my dream dock-clone: vertical, and integrated with the panel and window manager, and makes the windows-style task-list obsolete.
- warfangle 16y ago
  My only complaint about the launcher is it takes a variable amount of time to expand. I haven't nailed down what causes it, but sometimes it pops open right away - and sometimes it takes a couple seconds. It's also nearly impossible to right-click on an item - the panel disappears right before I'm able to click. I partially blame that on the shitty trackpad on my Cr48, though.
AlisdairO 16y ago
When I first started using macs, I hated the group-by-application idea too, but I've come to prefer it. Combined with application-specific expose, I find it scales so much better for when I have over 10 windows open on a non-huge screen - which I do most of the time. When I go back to a WM with a list of lots of windows open, I find myself hunting and pecking amongst all these tiny, almost indistinguishable icons, and it feels like it takes forever. edit: What I'd quite like is another expose mode which shows, say, the last 6 windows you've worked on. While I often have a lot of stuff i want to keep open, I often have a relatively smaller immediate working set.
- lloeki 16y ago
  I Cmd+M the ones I want to keep around but don't plan to use right now. They go in a smaller mode below a divide line on Exposé. Also I tell the Dock to "minimize into the application icon". Document window + Application icon + Exposé can really scale up, to the point I rarely ever use Spaces (when I was an avid user of virtual desktops under Linux).
  - AlisdairO 16y ago
    That seems like a god way of working - I might try modifying my UI-driving in line with that :-)

hasenj 16y ago

This is the first release. Consider it a glorified MVP. It's not that this is the greatest idea ever! It's more like, given the constraints and the available options, this option has enough goodness to out-weigh the badness. The grouping of multiple windows from the same application together is the only major problem I find with this setup, and even then it's not so major. It can probably be solved by providing a keyboard-shortcut to cycle current application windows. Overall I like the launcher very much. In fact, it's my dream dock-clone: vertical, and integrated with the panel and window manager, and makes the windows-style task-list obsolete.

warfangle 16y ago
My only complaint about the launcher is it takes a variable amount of time to expand. I haven't nailed down what causes it, but sometimes it pops open right away - and sometimes it takes a couple seconds. It's also nearly impossible to right-click on an item - the panel disappears right before I'm able to click. I partially blame that on the shitty trackpad on my Cr48, though.

AlisdairO 16y ago

When I first started using macs, I hated the group-by-application idea too, but I've come to prefer it. Combined with application-specific expose, I find it scales so much better for when I have over 10 windows open on a non-huge screen - which I do most of the time. When I go back to a WM with a list of lots of windows open, I find myself hunting and pecking amongst all these tiny, almost indistinguishable icons, and it feels like it takes forever. edit: What I'd quite like is another expose mode which shows, say, the last 6 windows you've worked on. While I often have a lot of stuff i want to keep open, I often have a relatively smaller immediate working set.

lloeki 16y ago
I Cmd+M the ones I want to keep around but don't plan to use right now. They go in a smaller mode below a divide line on Exposé. Also I tell the Dock to "minimize into the application icon". Document window + Application icon + Exposé can really scale up, to the point I rarely ever use Spaces (when I was an avid user of virtual desktops under Linux).
- AlisdairO 16y ago
  That seems like a god way of working - I might try modifying my UI-driving in line with that :-)