On 22 April 2010 10:27, Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx> wrote: > A tabbed system like Robin mentioned sounds very nice to me for two > reasons: first, it's very familiar as tabbed browsers are nearly > ubiquitous now. Second, am I the only one here annoyed at the fact that > there is a *huge* waste of space in the middle of the top panel? This > would be a very good and use of it. > > Brainstorming a little bit, I think a very nice way to visually show > workspaces this way would be extending the wallpaper to the tabs. > See the (ugly) mockup I'm attaching here, what you guys think? Regarding tabbed interfaces and your mockup, I already run a quite similar setup (see the attachment). I do not use workspaces at all. Neither do I have a bottom panel. The waste of space on the top panel has become the area for the »tabs« – the window list applet. That way I can comfortably change between full-screen applications – for me this serves the same purpose as workspaces. I also run maximus to eliminate the space-wasting titlebar. Test-driving GNOME Shell, I am waiting for a (native) global menu. At the moment, I am torn between the two approaches to use the space in the titlebar: window list or menu. It may be best to use only icons for the windows (like DockbarX) and have enough space for both menu and title; also regarding the departure of the notification area. I find workspaces to be very complicated (too much to be enabled by default). But maybe it is just me; I do not use many applications on a regular basis, apart from browser, file manager and terminal. Nevertheless, I can comfortably work with the occasional 10 windows. To sum it up: I think it would be best to have the tabs directly represent the applications, not workspaces (also for fast recognizability).
Attachment:
tabbed.png
Description: PNG image
