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Removing Pictures with Shotwell Viewer  
Written by rbn the 31 Mar 13 at 20:06. Global category: Usability. New
When you use the Shotwell Viewer to explore images in a whole directory, you will suddenly notice that you can not delete the image you are currently viewing using the Shotwell Viewer.

Actually, you have to look for the correct image in your file manager and have to delete it there.
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Solution #1: Remove Button in Shotwell Viewer
Written by rbn the 31 Mar 13 at 20:06.
Just some lines of code would improve the viewer: Add a remove button to Shotwell Viewer.

Further, pressing DEL could delete the photo, too.

See the 1 comments or propose a solution (latest comment the 3 Apr 13 at 08:57) >>

Managing Downloads  
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Written by rbn the 28 Feb 13 at 15:51. Related project: Unity. New
Web browsers – like the default for Ubuntu: Firefox – are currently using an extra windows to manage downloads.
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Solution #1: Manage downloads in the dash
Written by rbn the 28 Feb 13 at 15:51.
Instead of using an extra small window for managing your downloads, the dash could be used for it:

→The user clicks on a file in his webbrowser

→Is asked, if he want to download or to open the file

→The dash opens, the progress of the currently active download is shown, buttons to stop or to cancel would be there, too

→The user could easily continue working while the dash is hidden, if he would check the progress, he could just press SUPER and the dash would open, showing the status of the download

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Switching between windows quickly  
Written by rbn the 3 Dec 12 at 18:50. Related project: Unity. Not an idea
It's often necessary to switch between to windows quickly. (For following an instruction, Checking up something in the Internet, …)
If the windows, you're working in primary, is not fully maximized, there is a thing that sucks every time:
You're writing something in an editor, whose window isn't fully maximized. You want to search someting in google, so you click into the window of the browser, which is visible behind the text editor. The editor window dissappears, so if you've finished the search, you have to find the program in the starter to make it visible again and to continue to work.
The last step coasts a lot of time, and is annoying.
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Solution #1: Special Fade out of windows which aren't need in the meantime
Written by rbn the 3 Dec 12 at 18:50.
There is a more elegant way for this kind of problem:
Instead of that the window you actually don't need disappears, it should be fade out: A shaddow, or only the titelbar should be visible any more, so it would be easy to find the window again, when you need it again.

If you don't need a window for longer period, you want to minimize it in the normal way. This could be realized by double-clicking into the window you will have in the foreground instead.

This feature would raise the usability and the working-speed of Unity and Ubuntu!
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Solution #2: Assign hotkey to switch to specific applications
Written by ebnf the 3 Dec 12 at 21:49.
If the app. isn't open, it would launch it in full-screen, and if it's already open, switch to it and maximize it. Some of the "internet/media keys" should already be mapped to launch these applications, so they could be the first users of this feature. Needs to have an interface to map additional applications and keys.

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