RE: [Usability] Mac-Finder-like keyboard-navigation: Ctrl="and cl ose the current one"

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> > > > It's not such a great hardship to use the panel workspace
> > > switcher to
> > > > switch to another workspace.
> 
> 
> > > 	Given that, and the fact that Alt-Tab is a very widely used key 
> > > binding on Windows, my guess is that a significant number 
> of users 
> > > do use the keybinding.
> >
> > There is no equivalent of the workspace switcher panel applet on 
> > Windows, but we do have that in GNOME.
> 
> Are you sure that windows has nothing equivalent to the 
> workspace switcher?
> 
> The Microsoft Power Tools pack has included a Multiple 
> Workspaces power toy since at least windows 98 although I 
> cannot recall how you switched workspaces because I never use 
> workspaces.

That could be. I think I've seen that feature, or something similar, on one
Windows desktop (1, one time, very little) in my entire career. That's
meta-anecdotal evidence.

Murray Cumming
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