Re: Where is the API for proxy icons?
Re: Where is the API for proxy icons?
- Subject: Re: Where is the API for proxy icons?
- From: Ricky Sharp <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 10:36:20 -0600
On Tuesday, January 04, 2005, at 10:23AM, John Stiles <email@hidden> wrote:
>On Jan 4, 2005, at 8:05 AM, j o a r wrote:
>
>>
>> On 2005-01-04, at 16.52, John Stiles wrote:
>>
>>> Wow, never noticed that before :)
>>> OK, you want me to file the bug, or do you want to do it?
>>
>> I won't, as I found that to be kind of nice for non-document windows.
>> Perhaps even fit to be a new UI guideline... :)
>>
>> Why not help the user associate windows with their application? Uli
>> said that "you already have your app's name in the menu bar and its
>> icon in the dock to tell the user which app the window belongs to",
>> but neither of these two things can help a user find out what app a
>> window belongs to unless it's the key window, or if you bring the app
>> forward by clicking in the window.
>
>Here's one reason--you can drag the proxy icon to create Shark aliases
>on the desktop. That's certainly not a feature I wanted :) If they want
>app badging in title bars, they need to use a more supported technique
>so goofy things like that don't happen.
Actually, it's kind of a neat feature (just tried it out in Shark). Users can also drag the icon to the Dock which effectively does the same thing as selecting the "Keep in Dock" menu item from a running application's icon.
I'm not sure though of if this should be used universally. For example, should apps like Calculator have such an icon in its title bar?
--
Rick Sharp
Instant Interactive(tm)
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