> ...minimized windows just disappear. You can only find them in the activities overview or the alt-tab list.
... which is actually really cool. They're still very easily accessible (a single mouse-flip or keyboard sequence away), but completely out of sight when I'm not using them.
The windows-style task-bar with 75 bazillion unreadable entries always seemed pretty annoying (and often unusable when any number of apps are open); Gnome 3 does things much more elegantly.
That's one of the things I really like about gnome 3 / gnome-shell: it mostly stays in the background out of my way, but is quickly available when I want it.
... which is actually really cool. They're still very easily accessible (a single mouse-flip or keyboard sequence away), but completely out of sight when I'm not using them.
The windows-style task-bar with 75 bazillion unreadable entries always seemed pretty annoying (and often unusable when any number of apps are open); Gnome 3 does things much more elegantly.
That's one of the things I really like about gnome 3 / gnome-shell: it mostly stays in the background out of my way, but is quickly available when I want it.