Re: Suggestions for better workspaces as independant tasks

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo member fsf org>]

Julien Olivier <julo42 gmail com> writes:

Hi Julien,

> For more consistency, the following changes would also be needed:
>  - Alt-Tab should only display windows on the current workspace.

It already shows a separator line to indicate what apps are running on a
different workspace.  If it wouldn't show the other workspaces' apps,
then the only way to switch to another app/task was to get to the
overview, click the right workspace, then the right app.  IMHO, that's
too much inconvenience for tasks you frequently switch to for a few
seconds, e.g., quickly checking mail.

>  - Favorite apps should only be highlighted if they are running *on the
> current workspace*.
>  - Clicking on the icon of a favorite app already running on another
> workspace should launch a new instance of this app instead on
> switching to the currently running one on the other workspace.

I don't know if I'd like that.  For terminals, that would definitively
be an improvement over the current behavior.  For most apps, I'm not
sure.  And for several other apps, that simply won't work.  For example,
there is no way to have more than one Skype instance running.

Bye,
Tassilo