Keyboard shortcuts ideas

[Alessandro Crismani <alessandro crismani gmail com>]

Hi everyone,

I have been using gnome-shell as the default WM for quite some time and 
I have to say that I really like it.

I would like to share some suggestions which would make life easier for 
me. I am a keyboard addicted user, that's why all the ideas relate to 
key shortcuts.

I am used to open apps and files typing in the search area. However, 
when I want to open them in a new workspace, I have to use the mouse 
after I found them. It will be helpful to have a key modifier to open a 
selected item in a new workspace using the keyboard. Alternatively, it 
will be ok to be able to open a new workspace from the keyboard, since 
then the searched app would open in the just created workspace.

I would also like to be able to switch from the linear space to the grid 
space with a key. That's useful when I want to have a quick look at what 
other apps I have opened on other workspaces, and then return to the 
linear view which helps to stay focused on a task. Doing this with the 
current shell requires to switch to mouse (at least for what I am aware of).

If somebody can give me some hints about where this stuff is specified 
in the shell and how to change it I may try to code it by myself (if you 
find it useful). However, it might prove to be too much trouble since I 
never coded anything near to GUIs and I am limited to scientific 
algorithms C++ coding.

I hope you find this email useful,
Cheers,
Alessandro