[Cuis-dev] Is it possible to collapse the Windows in the old fashioned way (title only) ?

[Gerald Klix]

On 8/23/21 7:20 PM, Nicola Mingotti via Cuis-dev wrote:
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> On 8/23/21 7:09 PM, Gerald Klix wrote:
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>> On 8/23/21 6:51 PM, Nicola Mingotti via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> I see the default collapse behavior in Cuis is to minimize the 
>>> Windows and
>>> put it into the taskbar at the bottom, this is very nice to see, it the
>>> classic for modern OS.
>> Well, my openbox WM can "roll-up" windows, but I do not use it much.
>>>
>>> Looking at old Smalltalk videos and through the LaLonde book I see it 
>>> was possible
>>> to collapse a Windows keeping only its title on the screen.
>>> I think this would be a productivity super booster for my use case.
>> "Was possible" sounds funny, because this was the only,
>> thus "mandatory, option.
>>>
>>> Please let me know if It is still possible, if not I will try to
>>> re-implement that feature as soon as I can :)
>> Would you mind to file issues at github, I am loosing
>> track of all that tiny, but very useful, proposals.
>>
>> BTW: How about adding a preference to display the
>> (abbreviated) window title in the taskbar
>> instead of the tiny bitmap. I wondered for a very long
>> time how this tiny bitmaps should be useful,
>> until I discovered that they different colors of Cuis'
>> standard theme are very helpful to discriminate the
>> taskbar's bitmaps.
>>
>>
>> Just my 0.02€,
>>
>> Gerald
> 
> Hi Gerald,
> 
> ok, i copy this to GitHub, we keep it for future little project.
> Please don't to it ;) In this case there is no hurry, so let me try
> when I will be a little less stressed.
> 
> Also the preference is cool. I don't use much the icons at the bottom
> I think i prefer the "drawer semantic".
OK, will tackle that after the FileList stuff and
preferences menu rework.
> 
> I am not putting much stuff in github because unfortunately we can't
> have labels and i fear the explosion of a super mess mixing proposals,
> silly bugs, bad bugs, docs-to-do, doc-to-fix etc.
IC. May I offer Haver's issue tracker for this purpose, it has labels?
https://todo.sr.ht/~cy-de-fect/HaverOnCuis

Just forward the mails to ~cy-de-fect/HaverOnCuis at todo.sr.ht,
thew will automatically be added to the list of issues.
I will to the labeling.


> 
> bye
> Nicola

Best Regards,

Gerald