Re: OSX Exposé, compiz scale windows picker question

[Milan Oravec <moravec ukf sk>]

On 05/11/2011 04:02 PM, Dokuro wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Florian Kuhnt<florian kuhnt gmx de>  wrote:
> > Hello Milan,
> >
> > I'm having quite the same idea:
> >
> > 2011/5/11 Milan Oravec<moravec ukf sk>:
> > > 1. is there in gnome-shell any way to show all windows (running
> > > applications) from all workspaces at once similar to OS X Exposé or compiz
> > > scale windows picker? In activity overview are showed only running
> > > applications from one workspace.
> >
> > I did like the all-Windows-Exposé of compiz and wanted to have it in
> > every window manager, but then I was running KDE 4.5 and got used to
> > their workspace overview:
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XXEub2fJOg
> >
> > At 2:08 the 4 workspace-overview is activated. It has all the windows
> > presented in a per-workspace exposé. It's just like all-windows-Exposé
> >   but additionally grouped by workspace. I think that is a real
> > enhancement to the normal Exposé. What do you think?
> >
> > This new grouped-all-workspace-exposé somehow merges the three
> > overviews current-workspace-Exposé, all-windows-exposé and
> > workspace-switcher (that I had on three different hot corners before).
> > The gnome-shell overview is already a merge of App-Launcher, Taskbar
> > and (not that perfect) Exposé and workspace-switcher. I would like to
> > see the features of grouped-all-workspace-exposé somehow integrated
> > into gnome-shell.
> >
> > To do so, I would suggest the following steps:
> >
> > * Replace the grid-exposé by native-window-placement-exposé.
> >     =>  Already implemented and easily testable via the gnome-shell
> > extension attached to this bug:
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615378
> >
> > * Make exposé inside workspace thumbnails available.
> >
> > * Think about enlarging/rearranging workspace thumbnails to make
> > window picking easier.
> >
> >
> > Would that solve your problem sufficiently?
> >
> > Florian
>
> I remember their firsts versions of Gnome-Shell showed all the
> work-spaces, it showed 2 dividing the screen in half and then 4 little
> screens when the user added>3 work-spaces.
>
> I believe that they changed it for the dynamic work-space.
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I can remember those old versions and dynamic workspaces feature is 
better solution I think, but needs some fine tuning.