[haiku-development] Making "expand applications" the default DeskBar mode

  • From: "Adrien Destugues" <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 19:20:55 +0000

Hello,

We have a DeskBar setting to enable "expando" mode where applications can be
expanded to show a list of window. There is a small button to show the window
list inside the deskbar, instead of a separate menu.

Should we make this the default? It makes it much easier to reach the windows,
avoiding the menu, which needs 2 clicks to reach a window. The "expand" mode
only works with DeskBar in vertical mode.

There is a separate setting to expand new applications by default. We could
keep this one and leave it disabled, so there wouldn't be much functional
change if you don't use the feature (only the small expander button). This
means we could even remove the setting to disable the expander.

Further discussion: https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/6296

Thoughts?

--
Adrien.

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