[ge-talk] not so graphical workspaces app

[Ari Haviv]

My proposal would replace the workplaces app. It doesn't have to be on the
deskbar. But it's not so easy to move apps around between workspaces.
Hotkeys aren't so obvious and neither is what you have in what workspace.
Especially if you have lots of windows and workspaces. It should give a way
to see the big picture of 'everything"

I would also see added to the workspace tree the icon for each window and
also show the hotkey for each workspace so that people know there is such a
concept. The name of each workspace would be highlighted with a different
color.
The deskbar tells you that a window is in another workspace with a bunch of
lines. I also wish that was more obvious which workspace.

i think that one should be able to copy/move apps to other workspaces from
the app itself instead of getting out the workspaces app
I think it could be done with a right click menu from the title tab. but
that does something else-something I'd rather see a button for. (right click
means context menus!)

On 12/17/06, Alexander G. M. Smith <agmsmith at rogers.com> wrote:
>
> Ari Haviv wrote on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 05:38:30 -0500:
> > I think there are several problems with the way we do Workspaces. First
> of
> > all, finding the workspaces app is not so obvious. On linux desktops,
> it's
> > easy to see on the deskbar that you have several workspaces available.
>
> I'm happy with the current system that doesn't clutter the desktop with
> a Workspaces menu.  I know what's in each workspace (each has usual
> uses) and use the ALT-Fn key to switch between them.  If I want to
> find a window in a certain program, I just use the deskbar's list of
> applications and select the window, which then switches to that
> workspace and shows the window.  Workspaces are secondary; I really
> only care about application windows.
>
> But that's just my opinion.  I use the Linux workspace switcher or the
> alt-shift-arrow hotkeys for switching between Linux workspaces.  And on
> both OSes, I find workspaces useful.  Even more than multimonitor - got
> 3 screens at work and a tired hand from mousing around so much.
>
> - Alex
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