06-10-2003, 01:46 PM -
This is a suggestion for an enhancement or possible new application similar to TrueLaunch.
I've always hated the application list in W2K. I'm refering to the list of icons showing running applications.
If you run many applications, the icons get uselessly small, or you have to make your app list multiple lines hogging too much real estate.
When I have a lot of applications running, I notice it is usually several copies of a handful of applications. For example, 5 terminal windows, a couple of mail messages, and some text editors.
How about this:
If more than one of the same application is running, it turns into a pop-up menu. If you click on the menu button, it pops the most recently accessed to the top.
If you click and hold (or right click... whatever), the list of similar applications opens as a menu, and you can click the one you want.
There could be further options, like advanced grouping that allows dissimilar applications to be grouped under a single nicely sorted menu. For example, I could have all my terminal and ftp applications in a single group.
Why do this?
If my five emails, 3 text editors, and 4 terminal windows are grouped, that turns into 3 application groups instead of 12 separate applications. You now have the real estate to show what is actually running.
Cheers,
Al
I've always hated the application list in W2K. I'm refering to the list of icons showing running applications.
If you run many applications, the icons get uselessly small, or you have to make your app list multiple lines hogging too much real estate.
When I have a lot of applications running, I notice it is usually several copies of a handful of applications. For example, 5 terminal windows, a couple of mail messages, and some text editors.
How about this:
If more than one of the same application is running, it turns into a pop-up menu. If you click on the menu button, it pops the most recently accessed to the top.
If you click and hold (or right click... whatever), the list of similar applications opens as a menu, and you can click the one you want.
There could be further options, like advanced grouping that allows dissimilar applications to be grouped under a single nicely sorted menu. For example, I could have all my terminal and ftp applications in a single group.
Why do this?
If my five emails, 3 text editors, and 4 terminal windows are grouped, that turns into 3 application groups instead of 12 separate applications. You now have the real estate to show what is actually running.
Cheers,
Al