Re: Gnome-Shell - questions and opinions

["Allan E. Registos" <allan registos smpc steniel com ph>]

>The basic function of workspaces in the current design is to represent
>separate tasks with the expectation; 

Having no time to skim through the design documents, knowing that a workspace is dedicated to a specific task is great. Please make it better.  I am expecting that I can save all my workspaces and restore them and all the related tasks with it. It might be possible to have an option to save it in the cloud so that I can retrieve it elsewhere.

Great work...

-Allan E. Registos

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From: "Owen Taylor" <otaylor redhat com>
To: "Bojan Smojver" <bojan rexursive com>
Cc: gnome-shell-list gnome org
Sent: Tuesday, January 4, 2011 6:38:03 AM
Subject: Re: Gnome-Shell - questions and opinions

On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 08:32 +1100, Bojan Smojver wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 15:37 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > If you *don't* want your windows moved around when selecting them (you
> > don't want that feature of the overview), then wouldn't you just click
> > on them?
>
> Not sure what you mean by this. Take this as an example: 20 open windows
> across 6 workspaces. How am I meant to click the right one without
> seeing the workspaces? Or are you saying that there is a way to turn
> expose behaviour off in overview?

GNOME Shell is designed with the expectation that users will have
overlapping windows. It's not designed for spreading out windows
non-overlapping among multiple workspaces.

The basic function of workspaces in the current design is to represent
separate tasks with the expectation; most switching will occur between
windows within the same desktop.

There are going to be improvements for switching between workspaces (see
http://jimmac.musichall.cz/log/), but current plans are to keep things a
two-level thing - switch workspaces than switch windows.

- Owen


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