Re: Breadcrumbs in the panel

[Mike Bursell <mike hingston demon co uk>]

Sander -

Loving this.  One question: would it be possible to drop down from
non-active workspaces?  I'd love to be able to move to a window on a
non-active workspace without having to go to that workspace first: or at
least to be able to _find_ what workspace a window is on without having
to cycle through each one.

-Mike.


On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 20:35 +0200, Sander Dijkhuis wrote:
> Thanks for the reactions about the breadcrumbs idea [1]! I tried to implement
> parts of it in a separate, experimental Git branch. The code is very ugly and
> some things like maximalization, minimalization and urgent windows don't work
> well yet, but it might be enough to see if the ideas work.
> 
> Here is a screenshot of how it looks right now:
> http://picasaweb.google.com/sander.dijkhuis/GNOMEShell#5331656296470360274
> 
> Below are the commands to try the branch (edited from Marina's useful list of
> Git commands). Only the JavaScript files are changed, so if gnome-shell
> currently works for you, this should work too.
> 
>     First, navigate to the gnome-shell source directory:
>       cd ~/gnome-shell/source/gnome-shell
> 
>     To add my repository:
>       git remote add -f sander git://github.com/sander/gnome-shell.git
> 
>     To switch to my branch:
>       git checkout sander/breadcrumbs
> 
>     To run gnome-shell from my branch:
>       src/gnome-shell --replace
> 
>     To return to the regular, official branch:
>       git checkout master
> 
>     To get updates from my branch:
>       git fetch sander
>       git checkout sander/breadcrumbs
> 
>     To remove my repository:
>       git remote rm sander
> 
> Reporting technical bugs is probably not very useful for now, but I'm
> interested to hear about your experiences and ideas. For example, would this
> really make task switching slower than the current task bar at the bottom of
> the screen does?
> 
> Things that aren't implemented, but would have been if I worked faster:
> - Display workspace names ("Workspace 1") in the overlay view.
> - Use the same grid layout in the workspace menu as in the overlay view.
> - When the mouse cursor hovers over a window title in the menu, highlight that
>   window, as suggested by Brian Fleeger.
> - Show the window dropdown menu when switching windows using Alt-Tab.
> - Allow for point-and-scroll at the menus, as suggested by Greg K Nicholson.
> - Put the _ [] X buttons of maximized windows in the panel and hide their
>   title bars.
> 
> There's a Summer of Code project that will (among other things) let
> GNOME Shell work with tabs within windows, so that would allow for extending
> the breadcrumb trail to "Activities > workspace > window > tab".
> 
> To see how a "maximized" mode should work in my view, try Maximus (used in the
> Ubuntu Netbook Remix): https://launchpad.net/maximus
> 
> If anyone wants to experiment further with this code, please email me if the
> code is too unstructured or if more explanation is needed.
> 
> [1]: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/DesignerPlayground/BreadcrumbsEtc
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