It is just ugly :-)
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I'd rather my product was easily used and ugly than beautiful and unclear.
I think it does need something to indicate what's happening if you randomly press a key.
A small search icon to the left of the text might suffice.
Hi David, I personally like the minimalist approach of the present windows effect (it is in fact my main windows switching tool and the main reason I am not able to migrate to other window managers), and think that having an icon or explicit indicator about the filtering does not really help the user to understand what's going on.
As soon as one types - accidentally or not - , it gets obvious what's going on in the same way, the windows title overlay has no information indicating that that string is the windows title. It is just obvious (or it should be :-)).
Removing the "Filter" label also makes the visual way cleaner and I believe more efficient for those who rely on it (well, I can tell by myself :-)).
Cheers,
Leandro
I guess it won't be lifted; though I'd like to point out that I won't stand against this change.
In general, I think if we freeze the code for new features, we need to have a concrete plan for lifting the freeze that involves a rewrite or refactor, port to a different API, replacement with something better, etc. Otherwise we're just saying that we want this effect effect and its code to stagnate forever, which seems unfair to both users and developers.