Re: [Ayatana] window and workspace management in unity

[Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Nice timing I did a post on ubuntu planet about workspaces and had
some opinions on it
http://shanefagan.com/opening-applications-on-different-workspaces/

TBH I think we can do some nice stuff with workspaces if we think hard
about it. The issue is we need to be very careful since they are
already a bit un-needed so we need to think of useful good things to
do with them or we need to remove them if we cant think of good ways
to use them.

--fagan

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Bazon <bazonbloch@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hello, i'm new to this list.
> see (*) below why i came here.
>
> i have a few comments on window and workspace management in unity:
>
> 1. selecting windows
> when you have multiple windows of one application, clicking its icon in the
> launcher gets you an graphic overview of all windows of this application.
> selecting the right window can be quite hard like that: it's easy when you
> have several images, but when you have several text documents, it's really
> hard to distinguish them: everything is zoomed much smaller! selecting one
> such window was much easier by window-title in the task bar.
> so i propose:
> just don't zoom the window title. or maybe make a bubble for each window in
> which you can read the title.
>
> 2. workspace management
> i'm used to work on six workspaces and doing that, i don't like to be
> distracted by things going on on the other workspaces. in gnome or with
> cairo dock (as an option), that was easy: one just can see representations
> of the windows on the active workspace in the taskbar / in the dock.
> with unity, that seems to be not possible: the launcher shows
> representations of ALL windows on ALL workspaces. plus the launcher bar can
> get overfilled, so you have to scroll... (avoiding overfilled taskbar was my
> first motivation to use more than one workspace)
> so i propose:
> please add at least an option, so that one only sees the things on the
> momentary workspace. see bug
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/683170 and
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/689733
>
> 3. launcher options
> for better window / workspace management, i would like to have some more
> right click options for the launcher:
>  * open new window
>  * close all
>  * close all on this workspace
>  * show all
>  * show all on this workspace
>
>
> thank you for your attention.
>
> regards,
> Bazon
>
>
> (*)
> How I came here:
> this way:
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/9890/will-unity-be-more-customizable
> there was proposed to join this list.
> english is not my natural language, sorry for mistakes
>
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