[Usability] Re: Move to Workspace (Right | Left) Proposal

[Britt Selvitelle <britt muchobs com>]

On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 22:57 +0100, Maciej Katafiasz wrote:
> Dnia 08-11-2004, pon o godzinie 16:12 -0500, Britt Selvitelle napisał:
> > I'd like to discuss the removal of "Move to Workspace Right/Left" from
> > the right click context menu for windows. The HIG specifies that context
> > menus should be kept as simple as possible [1]. Users are given the
> > functionality of specifying which workspace to move the window to via
> > the "Move to Another Workspace" menu. I simply cannot see enough use
> > cases to move it directly to the right or left to justify its own
> > entries.
> > 
> > Here is a comparison of how the menu looks in its current state, and how
> > it would look with these entries removed (from a non-edge workspace):
> > 
> > 	http://sweb.uky.edu/~mbselv0/move_workspace.png
> 
> One argument in favor of current layout is that Left / Right relieve you
> from keeping one bit of context, namely current workspace number.

This is the only real benefit obtained from Left/Right (imo, the submenu
argument does not outweight the fact that having both not only adds
clutter but is also redundant). But I'd like to see this extended even
further in the future with an implementation of something like:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2004-March/msg00013.html

Britt