On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 15:03, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > Will LaShell <will lashell net> writes: > > So I just discovered, that with the coming of GNOME2, we will be losing > > the ability to use a desktop with viewports arranged in a grid. I don't > > want to really debate whether or not this feature regression is right. > > I'm going to assume that it was talked about and decided somewhere. > > You're confused about the usual thing, which is you are confusing > "can be arranged in a grid" with "viewports" ah, true. > > > The current setup uses Xfree86 on dual monitor machines with gnome 1.x, > > sawfish with a viewport virtual desktop using 5 columns and 3 rows. > > like so: > > > > -------------------------- > > | | | | | | > > -------------------------- > > | | | | | | > > -------------------------- > > | | | | | | > > -------------------------- > > Right click on the workspace switcher applet, set it to 3 rows and 15 > workspaces. > > > everyone that looked at the system today were immediately asking how > > they were going to configure their system so that they can easily get to > > any desktop without a great deal of hand movement, ( right now the only > > keys they need are alt+arrows to reach anything ) and without having to > > cross a large amount of windows/desktops. > > We don't have any way to set up alt+arrows right now, but it's easy to > add. But this doesn't mean you want viewports, it means you want > keyboard shortcuts that move between workspaces according to how they > are layed out visually in the workspace switcher. So someone just > needs to implement these keybindings. Not a big deal, but be sure a > bug is open in bugzilla. I tried the workspace switcher, pushed it up to the numbers you listed, but it would still only display 4 workspaces. However, that's probably just a bug with the applet. I am checking bugzilla now, should a bug for the keybindings be against the window manager, or the applet, or ? Thanks for the response. Will > > Havoc
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