Re: Dynamic Workspaces - Proposal

[Wouter De Borger <w deborger gmail com>]

I am very much in favor of "no auto close" or "no auto close for the first N desktops".

I'll try to make an extensions if I find the time.  

Rationale
I use my desktops per topic and they remain open for a long time. 
So I know what is on which, and I hate it when they renumber.  
I prefer an empty slot in between, that can be reassigned to a new  topic

I can also not use per application auto sorting because most desktops have the same apps (editor, terminal, browser)

Usecase scenario
Nr 1 has my email and agenda (2 browser windows)
Nr 2 has a paper I'm writing (a terminal, editor, pdf viewer, browser and some other stuff)
Nr 3 has my gnome shell hacking (many terminals, browsers with docs, an editor,...)
Nr 4 has a prototype I'm working on (eclipse, terminal, editor, browsers with docs)

Say I'm working on the paper, After some time I go to nr 1 (check mail), back to 2, quickly check some details in 3, back to 2; back to 1 (email), back to 2 
Browser crashes.
I kill the browser.
Nr 1 is gone. (no more windows)
Now I can start moving all  windows to the next desktop, so as to free a new nr 1 (haven't found a good way to do it yet)

Wouter

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 22:18, Jesse Hutton <jesse hutton gmail com> wrote:

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

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