Multi-windows for a Single Task



On Wednesday, 19 January, 2011 09:50 AM, lofton alley wrote:
As regards the use of multi-windows for a single task:

Hi, I renamed this thread to "Multi-windows for a Single Task."
It was a little weird, but it was working, then disaster struck! The workspace switcher in cairo dock crashed and refused to run. It removed itself from the dock entirely (still no clue why) and I was forced to use only the overview for the process.
Cairo dock and others docks now I will not use, it crashes all the time. To better test the full potential of GNOME Shell, I suggest that we should use it alone not with the help of any third-party apps.
Well, it did work, and it was ALMOST better than using the switcher (this was BTW, a rather extensive test, over a month now of daily work under tight deadlines and, well, I'm in Asia, working for Hong Kong overlords who routinely expect 10-12 hour days while I refuse to work more than 7-8 but work fast and hard for those hours). The thing that didn't work so well was the placement of the overview trigger for the mouse up in the top left-hand corner.
It was the extra movement to that hot-spot that seemed to be dragging 
things a little. Yes I am accustomed to using the dock, of course, but 
after a month should have overcome that. Still it doesn't feel like it 
is in a comfortable place. Oh, don't tell me to use a keyboard 
shortcut, of course i do use that sometimes, but when my hand is on 
the mouse, switching to the keyboard is just as great a loss as moving 
the mouse to the corner.
So now, I am using the overview exclusively (here at work where I am 
on the box most of my day), but i do want it in a different location, 
like in my dock? I don't know what would be a better solution for me, 
actually. I should also note that I have the same setup at home 
(fedora 14 with gnome3/shell and cairo dock) at home where the 
workplace switcher is working. The difference is that i seldom work 
across desktops at home, preferring instead to open two app windows on 
a single workspace (but then that is usually file browser work which 
is different from what I do here. And i use the overview and the 
workplace switcher together at home. I do believe that I need the 
switcher less at home than here though, although it is there as a 
legacy rather than a need.
Does that muddy the water????

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