Re: Named, persistent workspaces

[Elia Cogodi <elia cogodi gmail com>]

Thanks, I know the extensions and gsettings you mentioned, and used
them in various combinations. Those nuts and bolts don't add up to the
machinery of user experience I had in mind, though.
- Attaching numbers to workspaces automatically according to the
position in the list and using that for shortcuts is a bad solution,
as they are bound to shift when a preceding space is collected.
- In the same way, that makes quite useless attaching a name to
workspace number x, unless you make sure that the number never shifts
relatively to the windows.
- Avoiding collection for empty workspaces unless they're trailing
isn't really satisfying. If an unnamed empty workspace is devoid of
any significance to the user and collected when trailing, we shouldn't
keep it around when in the middle. That would be an unnecessary
technicality.

In the end, those can be useful tools for someone who understands
old-style workspaces and doesn't want to mix dynamic and static, but
don't provide a natural extension of the dynamic system that is now in
place.

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Giovanni Campagna
<scampa giovanni gmail com> wrote:
> Il giorno mar, 26/04/2011 alle 11.57 +0200, Elia Cogodi ha scritto:
>
>
> What you propose already exists sort of. First of all, through GConf (or
> the preferences of the old workspace switcher applet) you can define
> workspace names, which are shown when you right click on a window and
> select "move to other workspace".
> Second, you can use the windowsNavigator extension, that assigns Alt+<N>
> to the Nth workspace. Third, you can use the auto-move-windows
> extension, that automatically places certain applications on predefined
> workspaces when they start, and stops collecting empty workspaces that
> are not at the end (making them static, that is).
>
>
> This workspace switcher seems useful indeed. I don't know if it will
> accepted in core shell (drop at #gnome-design to talk with designers for
> that), but surely it will be welcome as an extension.
> I think it should be between "Activities" and the Application Menu, to
> create a sort of navigation bar.
>



-- 
    Elia