Re: I have realised the problem here

[Julien Olivier <julo42 gmail com>]

(snip)

> At any rate, it seems the workflow you describe is quite suited to Gnome.
> You could dedicate an entire desktop to a video editing task, and when you
> alt-tab within that desktop, you'd only be shown the windows dedicated to
> that task. If you want to switch to another task, you'd switch to another
> desktop (and if you're an emacs user like me, maybe bind super-n to "move
> to the desktop below").

Hi,

that would be great if that could work this way. But the problem is that, if you dedicate a workspace to each task, when you click on an application that you don't have opened on the current desktop but have opened on a different workspace (for a different task), gnome-shell moves you away from your current workspace instead of opening a new window of that application. And that breaks this paradigm. Too bad, really!

> Although like I said, I don't know the context, so I might be missing the
> mark.
>
> Awjin
>
> On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 4:04 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella <
> es20490446e gmail com> wrote:
>
> > After talking with some GNOME users and developers I have realised there's
> > a common misunderstanding.
> >
> > The goal of the GNOME Shell is to focus on one thing at a time, but
> > normally when I have multiple windows or tabs opened all are related with
> > the same task at hand. They are simply different stages of the same process.
> >
> > 0 -> 0 -> 0 -> 0
> >
> > If I want for example produce multiple videos, having all those windows
> > open eases me finishing one video at a time, since I can quickly change
> > between stages.
> >
> > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-Minute_Exchange_of_Die)
> > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_manufacturing)
> >
> > So here's the problem: you are confusing finishing things one by one with
> > visiting the tools one by one. If you really care about focus you would
> > want to make changes between tools as easy as possible.
> >
> > Thanks for your attention.
> >
> >
> >
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