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Re: Mouse-based Workspace Switching

 

For power users there's EasyStroke, but I doubt we'll ship that by default.
Multitouch should also help on some machines.

2012/10/7 Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff <sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> https://bugs.launchpad.net/elementaryos/+bug/946666 is the answer
>
> 2012/10/7 Craig <weberc2@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>> Having just switched from Ubuntu 10.10 to Elementary on my desktop
>> machine (which I haven't used in over a year), I've noticed a real
>> irritation when trying to switch workspaces while one hand is on the
>> mouse--the user has to take a hand off the mouse, put both hands on the
>> keyboard (many keyboards don't have a super key near the arrow keys),
>> activate the workspace switching motion, and then return their hand to
>> their mouse to continue working. This isn't as big a problem on a laptop as
>> most laptops have semi-decent trackpads right below the keyboard; however,
>> on a typical desktop, this is a real irritation.
>>
>> Under older versions of Ubuntu (the ones that used the compiz cube by
>> default) I liked being able to hold ctrl+alt and then click/drag to change
>> workspaces; however, that still requires moving one hand to the keyboard
>> which still feels tedious if your hand isn't there already. I propose
>> coming up with a solution. It may not seem like a big deal, but if you're
>> like me (having one application open per workspace) this can be a real
>> annoyance.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
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> Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
> OS architect @ elementary
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