Re: Questions regarding Sun's gnome 2.6 implementation

[Karsten Bräckelmann <guenther rudersport de>]

> [...]  Still, someone at
> Sun should probably take a look at this to see what the answer is.

In that case, this is the wrong place. ;)


> Yes, I have those options enabled also. However, while
> <Shift><Mod><F[1234]> do move the windows to an alternate workspace and
> <Mod><F[1234]> do move the focus to the alternate desktop, I still don't
> see an option for doing both operations in one step.

Seems like a design decision to me.

Also, please don't forget that we are talking about GNOME 2.0 and 2.6
here. Yes, there may be UI differences -- which do not necessarily mean
a bug, but deliberately changed behavior.


> I agree that the
> "Move to Another Workspace" menu options are a bit inconvenient since they
> have been moved to a sub-menu.  They used to be directly available on the
> initial menu.  I will have to investigate and see if I can determine a way
> to modify the menus to get the commands back where I like them.

GNOME also used to ship with sawfish as the default window manager, at
some historic point in space time. ;-)

Seriously, this might explain some of these issues...


> >The latter two actually are what I really do use often. Moving
> >workspaces left and and right -- and optionally, to take the active
> >window with me... Most useful to me. :)
> 
> When you say "take the active window with me", does this mean you are doing
> both move and refocus in one step?

Yes.

It is the "Move window one workspace to the right" keyboard shortcut
that I am talking about here. Moves the window, and switches to that
workspace.

Also please note, that the shortcuts I mentioned are *relative*, rather
than absolute.

  guenther


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