Something like this could work because it is persistant.
A another try here:
http://nsa14.casimages.com/img/2010/04/16/100416114827825788.jpg
This would not work because of a good couple of reasons. Firstly, workspaces in the shell are not associated with numbers at all. Secondly it's a twostep menu with small buttons replicating the rightclick menu that already exists, even tough it's not as accessible.
To get back to the PieThrower I would like to comment the idea about a secondary layer of the menu:
- if you drag and hold the mouse over the pie button not releasing the
button, miniatures of all desktops in that direction unfold and you may
drop the window on the selected desktop
This is a secondary layer that does not interrup the basic idea behind the PieThrower, the ability to throw windows. If the user wants to access more detailed information, not using the "going outside of the pie"-trigger, it will provide such. The extended view could look something like this:
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm167/Rovanion/PieThrowermockup3.png?t=1271418807Now the issue with this extended view is just that the different workspaces aren't represented by numbers in the Shell. And I'm not quite shure how you would represent each workspace. By showing icons of the apps running on that desktop? Seems like an ugly solution.
