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Re: [Ayatana] window and workspace management in unity

Nice timing for you, Shane, but unfortunately no one else seems to care?
OK, reading a bit here showed me that images show more than words, so here are two images from me, showing the "how to pick the right text document window?" problem: 


image 1:
window spread in unity with 6 text documents:

http://ubuntuone.com/p/gtO/

seriously, it is very hard to distinguish the several documents this way!



image 2:
quick and dirty mock up: window spread with title not zoomed:

http://ubuntuone.com/p/gtQ/

that way, selecting windows would be easy.
by the way, I first tried that with pdf Documents in evince, but showing more than 4 documents in a window spread always crashed unity/compiz for me: 

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/732048


regards,
Bazon




On 08.03.2011 08:24, Shane Fagan wrote:

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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