Re: Dynamic Workspaces - Proposal

[Giacomo Montagner <mantager gmail com>]

On mar, 2011-08-23 at 08:17 +0200, Ralph Hofmann wrote:
> Am 22.08.2011 22:18, schrieb Jesse Hutton: 
> > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Federico Mena Quintero
> > <federico gnome org> wrote:
> >         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
> I think a simple way would be to allow a configurable number of fixed
> workspaces and keep the behavour for the workspaces above. So
> everybody could setup his prefered way of "workspacing". Wouldn't that
> be possible with an extension? (I am not a programer)
> 
> Ralph

I'm using the Auto Move Windows Extension and every morning, when I turn
on my laptop, every window goes to the right workspace (by default I
have 5 of them, plus the 6th-free-workspace that is automatically
created). Here is my configuration: 

Schema: org.gnome.shell.extensions.auto-move-windows
Application list: ['gnome-terminal.desktop:1',
'google-chrome.desktop:5', 'claws-mail.desktop:3',
'evolution.desktop:3', 'fedora-geany.desktop:4',
'mozilla-firefox.desktop:2']

it just works... 

If, for example, I change:

'mozilla-firefox.desktop:2'    into     'mozilla-firefox.desktop:12'

and then reload the shell (ALT+F2, r), firefox goes to workspace
12, workspace 13 appears after that, and all the workspace in the middle
are created consequently. The name of the applications should be find 
by looking into the /usr/share/applications directory.

Hope this helps.
Bye.

Giacomo.