Application Switcher
Submitted by jketreno, updated on 9 Feb 2009
The Moblin Application Switcher is the primary means for navigating from one application to another. The goal is to remove the concept of a "running" application from the user and make interacting with the platform features as easy and fun as possible.
The common example is a Sudoku application -- the user may be half way through a game, and then they switch to another application. Time passes. The user has used several other applications. At some point, the system determined that it needed the resources used by Sudoku, and that application hadn't been run in a while.
When the user activates the application switcher, the Sudoku application will be shown in the history of applications presented. The visualization of the application may be desaturated to indicate that it is not currently *interactive* but the concept of having to "launch" that particular application is removed -- the user can just tap its preview window and it will come back to full interactive color within moments.
Applications which have never been run, which have been explicitly quit by the user, or have moved off the end of the Least Recently Used queue of applications would be startable using the application launching mechanism presented to the user.
