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

[Nicola Mingotti]

On 8/23/21 7:35 PM, Gerald Klix wrote:
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> 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,
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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.
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>>> Just my 0.02€,
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>>> Gerald
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>> Hi Gerald,
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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> 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.
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ok, i can do that !


bye
Nicola