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

["Britt Selvitelle" <britt muchobs com>]

On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 13:37:58 +0000, "Calum Benson"
<Calum Benson Sun COM> said:
> On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 21:12, Britt Selvitelle wrote:
> > 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]. 
> 
> Right, but hiding *all* the "move to" options isn't making it as simple
> as possible (it forces an extra layer of menu navigation regardless of
> which workspace you want to move it to, when nine times out of ten you
> want to move it to an adjacent one), and the HIG also says you shouldn't
> really have submenus in context menus anyway.  
> 
> The current design was intended to put the most frequently-used move-to
> operations at the top level, whilst accepting that there isn't really
> much alternative to a submenu if you still want all the other options to
> be available:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110904

Good to see it's being used ... I think what gave me the original itch
was the redundancy of the submenu and Right/Left options. This also
coming from someone who only uses 4 workspaces.

I think everyone will agree that there is a yet unsolved problem if
someone uses a large number, especially in multiple rows (as displayed
on the taskbar). Numbering them 1 ... n does not work well in these
cases.

Could I get your opinion on:

	http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145281

I think this a nice compromise that settles current issues, until we
come up with some more advanced system (like dynamically growing /
shrinking workspaces) in the more distant future.

Britt