Hi all,
Ever since I first got the gnome-shell running, I have noticed that getting rid of empty workspaces along
the periphery feels very mouse-intensive as I jump from workspace to workspace
closing them. This is especially the case since users have to
click the Minus-sign in a particular order, and it appears to be a difficult
motor pattern for my hands to adapt (maybe it's just me though…). It doesn't help that adding spaces looks so pretty that I just keep adding more than I really need, and then have to close a bunch.
Google Chrome addressed the problem that closing tabs made the "x's" on other tabs into moving targets by making it so the close buttons remained stationary until a user's mouse moved away from the tab zone. Could gnome-shell incorporate some similar convenience?
One way would be to
include a minus-sign nearby to the plus sign in the corner.
See: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3606/3496416276_2149de9687_o.png
Maybe the minus part could be faded out if no windows were available for "subtracting." Maybe the plus/minus combo could be in addition to the current minus sign that appears over new workspaces, or maybe the in-workspace minus sign would only appear if a user's mouse was inside the workspace zone? Anyway, this is just one idea for keeping people's mouse hands from becoming too tired.
I don't know if anyone else finds this distracting, much less if it qualifies as a "bug" worth filing. Does anyone else get tired?
Regards,
Brian