Re: OSX Exposé, compiz scale windows picker question

[Florian Kuhnt <florian kuhnt gmx de>]

2011/5/11 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.

Same for me. I really like the dynamic workspaces feature and having
the currently active workspace larger and more focused. I would just
like to have the expose-feature on workspace-thumbnails reimplemented
to make them

* showing what windows are on the workspace - not just the one that is
currently on top
* keep the thumbnail fixed no matter what window was last focused.
* make direct switching to windows on other workspaces possible

Of course, this makes much more sense if
native-window-placement-Exposé is used. The thumbnail looks much more
unique than the grid of grid-exposé. Every grid looks like a grid ;-)