Hm, I don't think mouse acceleration is an appropriate solution for that problem, since it messes up your accuracy. Another thing came to my mind: What about the scaling? If you hit the shortcut will it be triggered on both desktops? Or just on one with all running apps? Because I can't use the scale addon of compiz fusion at all. First of all its triggered in the most right corner and requires me to go all the way to the most right spot on the right monitor and then the overview of all windows opens on the left monitor with all windows of the left and right monitor. This does not only add additional way you have to do with your mouse, but also reduces the readability since there are more apps and each window has to get smaller. I usually have some static apps on the right monitor like messenger, feedreader and musicplayer and sometimes I like to switch them since i cant position them to be all on top. The best way to do this would be the following: Trigger the scaling on both monitors, regardless where the key/spot is hit but only show the programs on the monitor where they are currently running e.g.: browser + mailprogram running on the left monitor, musicplayer and messenger on the right monitor. Scale would now trigger on both monitors with the browser and mailprogram only shown in the left scaling view and the musicplayer and messenger scaled on the right monitor. I think this is especially critical since the currently implemented scale uses the screensize very unefficiently and the overview is pretty bad, especially on lower resolutions like on laptops (the activity window takes up a lot of space, this definitely needs improvement imo). On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 23:18 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Bernhard Posselt > <bernhard posselt gmx at> wrote: > Thats actually a pretty good idea but I tend to use the mouse. > I dunno, > maybe because my mouse cord is longer than my keyboard's (ms > comfort > curve 2000) and I'm often relaxed and leaned back in front of > my Monitor > and therefore using my mouse a lot. > > > Ah, yes, good point. What about mouse acceleration to be able to do > that? I guess I'm not sure how to resolve the problem since I think > it persists even in Gnome 2.0 and possibly other OSes. If you have > proper mouse acceleration you might be able to move the mouse fast > enough to get to the host spot with a little more effect than a flick. > > > Imho keyboard shortcuts are not bad, but mainly for advanced > users which > favor the keyboard and should not be mandatory for all users > to have a > good experience. Plus it could be implemented as an option and > therefore > turned off if people who dont like it. > > I've actually hit the windows button in shell to see what it would do > since it doesn't quite have a place in the Linux world. I'm not sure > what that key would do for emacs users who might possibly want to use > that key. > > As for advance users, I think if you're using a multi monitor setup > that isn't a projector/laptop or laptop/monitor you're likely an > advanced user since you're already specializing in a work flow model > that is outside the regular user. It might take some iterations to > flush out what the right way that would work for gnome-shell and > artists like yourself. > > sri >
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