Multi-windows for a Single Task

["Allan E. Registos" <allan registos smpc steniel com ph>]

On Wednesday, 19 January, 2011 09:50 AM, lofton alley wrote:
> As regards the use of multi-windows for a single task:
Hi, I renamed this thread to "Multi-windows for a Single Task."
> It was a little weird, but it was working, then disaster struck! The 
> workspace switcher in cairo dock crashed and refused to run. It 
> removed itself from the dock entirely (still no clue why) and I was 
> forced to use only the overview for the process. 
Cairo dock and others docks now I will not use, it crashes all the time. 
To better test the full potential of GNOME Shell, I suggest that we 
should use it alone not with the help of any third-party apps.
> Well, it did work, and it was ALMOST better than using the switcher 
> (this was BTW, a rather extensive test, over a month now of daily work 
> under tight deadlines and, well, I'm in Asia, working for Hong Kong 
> overlords who routinely expect 10-12 hour days while I refuse to work 
> more than 7-8 but work fast and hard for those hours). The thing that 
> didn't work so well was the placement of the overview trigger for the 
> mouse up in the top left-hand corner.
>
> It was the extra movement to that hot-spot that seemed to be dragging 
> things a little. Yes I am accustomed to using the dock, of course, but 
> after a month should have overcome that. Still it doesn't feel like it 
> is in a comfortable place. Oh, don't tell me to use a keyboard 
> shortcut, of course i do use that sometimes, but when my hand is on 
> the mouse, switching to the keyboard is just as great a loss as moving 
> the mouse to the corner.
>
> So now, I am using the overview exclusively (here at work where I am 
> on the box most of my day), but i do want it in a different location, 
> like in my dock? I don't know what would be a better solution for me, 
> actually. I should also note that I have the same setup at home 
> (fedora 14 with gnome3/shell and cairo dock) at home where the 
> workplace switcher is working. The difference is that i seldom work 
> across desktops at home, preferring instead to open two app windows on 
> a single workspace (but then that is usually file browser work which 
> is different from what I do here. And i use the overview and the 
> workplace switcher together at home. I do believe that I need the 
> switcher less at home than here though, although it is there as a 
> legacy rather than a need.
>
> Does that muddy the water????

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