Re: Wide displays should be ordered differently in overlay

[Sam Illingworth <hushnecampus gmail com>]

On 4 Jan 2010, at 10:24 PM, Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 17:12 +0000, Samuel Arthur Wright Illingworth
> wrote:
> > If you have a very wide workspace, such as two or more screens, then
> > when you have two workspaces in the overlay both screens are shrunk
> > unnecessarily small.  Wouldn't it make more sense for the second
> > workspace to come on from underneath, so you have them vertically,
> > meaning each can be larger?
>
> The plan here is that each monitor will have a separate display of the
> windows on that monitor. So, on each monitor, the workspaces will have
> the aspect ratio for that monitor.
>
> Once you do that, I don't think there's generally a big difference
> whether you stack the first two workspaces horizontally or  
> vertically -
> while there is some unoccupied vertical space around the workspaces
> area, there are plans for that space in the mockups - like showing
> messages above the workspaces to give feedback and a chance to undo  
> when
> you've removed something from the favorites well.
>
> - Owen
Ah, that sounds good :)