Re: Dynamic Workspaces - Proposal

[Ralph Hofmann <hofmann2004 arcor de>]

Am 23.08.2011 09:17, schrieb Giacomo Montagner:
> 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.
>
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Sounds good. I will check it out.

Thank you.

Ralph