Re: Proposal for Workspace Labeling / Tagging

[Nanley Chery <nanleychery gmail com>]

On 12/16/2011 04:40 PM, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
> Le jeudi 15 décembre 2011 à 01:19 -0500, Nanley Chery a écrit :
> > To solve these issues, I have written a proposal for manually labeled
> > workspaces:
> > http://nanley.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/improving-gnome-shell-workspaces/
> >
> > As well as a proposal for automatically labeled (tagged) workspaces:
> > http://nanley.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/labeled-workspaces-revisited-tags/
> Saving and restoring workspaces is an interesting idea that was
> discussed many times on this list, but it wouldn't currently work well
> because of the state of session saving, and would require quite some
> work.
>
> Labeling workspaces would be nice for people using static workspaces
> (this existed with Metacity). But only dynamic ones are supported in the
> design, so I think you should make workspace labels an extension, or add
> it to the static workspaces extension if the author agrees. That's the
> best way to make this feature available, and to try it.
I have noticed the previous discussions on saving and restoring the 
states of workspaces, and I do understand that the infrastructure to do 
that is not yet reliable. I may not have expressed it clearly, but for 
manual labeling, my idea was simply to save the workspace with its label 
and not the apps running within it. This would save users from 
relabeling a workspace they intend to reuse in the future (after closing 
all the apps within it or rebooting).

If we're set on dynamic workspaces , I've also proposed a solution for 
automatic labeling (tagging). This would automatically give a tag, or a 
string of tags to a workspace depending on what windows were opened 
within that workspace. This wouldn't require any change in the way we 
currently manage workspaces. I'm looking into extensions, but I think 
it'd be a good idea to have this feature by default.

Thanks,
Nanley