Re: [Ayatana] Handling workspaces in Unity's launcher

[Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx>]

Some comments:

1) Does not seem to work for applications with multiple windows
(you already know that per your comment in Launchpad)

2) Even for applications with a single window, I believe cases
where users are not interested in such association are frequent.
Several users treat workspaces as extra space to be used as
needed (Gnome shell for example was designed with that
in mind) and not as fixed spaces.

3) The size, and therefore easiness of interaction, of each
workspace is proportional to the number of itens inside it.
This makes switching to a specific workspace, literally, a
moving target.

4) Disposing workspaces from a 2x2 grid in a linear stack makes
the association unnatural.

5) In my opinion, the presentation as it is is not noticeable enough.
On the other hand, I cannot suggest anything more noticeable that
would not be excessively cluttered.

Overall, in my opinion, the idea seems to add clutter and complexity
without bringing too many advantages.

Which problem, exactly, you are trying to solve?


-----Original Message-----
From: David Prieto <frandavid100@xxxxxxxxx>
To: ayatana <ayatana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thu, Oct 28, 2010 12:20 pm
Subject: [Ayatana] Handling workspaces in Unity's launcher


Hi, I recently sent this request to Launchpad:

I think an easy way to move windows between workspaces, and switch
workspaces, would be to use colored areas in the launcher. Please see
the attached mockup.
There are four violet areas on the launcher, each corresponding to a
workspace: the first one is the biggest because it contains three
launchers (meaning there are three windows in that workspace); the
second one is smaller because it only has one launcher (that is, there
is one window in that launcher) and the other two are very small
because there are no windows on those workspaces.
Dragging a launcher inside each of them would move their window to that
workspace, and clicking an empty area would switch to that workspace.
Also, moving a favourite launcher to a workspace would mean that
everytime you open that app, it opens on the workspace where you left
it. It would also be easy to launch apps directly on a given workspace
by dragging it from the dash to the corresponding workspace on the
launcher.


You can see the mockup here: http://imgur.com/ucDyW.png

Could you give me some opinions about the proposal?


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