Re: what needs to be done for NSWorkspace

[Rogelio M . Serrano Jr .]

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On 2005-01-30 01:15:13 +0800 Enrico Sersale <enrico@dtedu.net> wrote:

> On 2005-01-29 18:11:25 +0200 Rogelio M.Serrano Jr. 
> <rogelio@smsglobal.net> 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > What needs to be done for NSWorkspace so we can improve the GWDock or
> > write a new Dock?
>
> Since I agree with Armando when he says "Dock.app should only show 
> true 
> GNUstep programs in it", the NSWorkspace feature that I think should 
> be added 

Hmmm... I think we need a native web browser asap in that case. I
remember turning off miniwindows and wmaker dock. My firefox window
ran out on me when I minimised it. And there was no way i can get it
back:-)

> is returning an array with the running applications names in 
> -launchedApplications. Now the Dock shows as running only the apps 
> launched 
> after it.

I see. Do we need to store the names of the apps in a property list
somewhere? So the dock remembers them when it starts? Or is it better
to use the fiend for this? I would like to use the fiend all the time.
Then maybe the Dock can check with the fiend first so there will be no
duplicates?

  What about the recycler? I would like its appicon in the corner. Not
in the dock where it jumps around.

> And, to clarify definitively:
> any feature that implies access to the applications miniwindows is 
> feasible 
> only if the app owning the Dock *is* the window manager or if we 
> write a 
> window manager that sends distributed notifications in this kind of 
> situations.

With WMaker.app thats possible.

I would also like to clarify a point Im very confused about. A
miniwindow is the tile that appears at the bottom of the screen right?
With the label? And the appicon is the one without the label that you
can drop on the fiend. Miniwindows are what we get when we minimise a
window. Is that right?

Also the fiend has a limited area to dock app icons. Should we limit
the number of applications we can dock? Im a document centered desktop
kind of person. I would rather double click icons on the spatial mode
browser.

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