On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 17:41 +0200, Ralph
Hofmann wrote:
> I use my workspaces based on topics. Workspace 2 is
multimedia,
> workspace 3 is Gimp and so on. I have 6 workspaces.
>
> So I would like to be able to send an application for
example to
> workspace 6 even if workspace 5 doesn't exist yet.
The problem is that empty workspaces disappear.
I think that behavior could be improved by not closing
empty workspaces automatically. When one has 5 workspaces
open, is on workspace 3 and closes the last open window there,
they suddenly have the rug pulled out from under them (on
current F15, at least); they're dropped into overview mode and
suddenly find themselves on the last empty workspace, which
has now become #4 since what was #3 disappeared.
It's extremely jarring and unintuitive to be teleported
like that. It's also comical how if you are on workspace 1
with a single application window open in Gnome Shell and you
focus the window and hit ctrl + shift + alt down repeatedly
you get this kind of yoyo effect where you go to workspace 2,
but then are suddenly jerked back to 1 since there's nothing
there anymore and it disappears. It would make more sense if
it just created new workspaces to place the window on and
didn't close the empty ones, which would fit in nicely with
the above proposal.
Jesse
