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[Conscious User <conscioususer@xxxxxxx>]

> I thought of maybe bringing up adding workspaces on-the-fly but
> dropped it when I thought of a person that had no experience with
> multiple workspaces say open an application set to create a new
> workspace and being annoyed/angered/confused by all of the windows
> they just had now being gone, unless something very bright, clear,
> bouncing or perhaps all of those was directing them to how to get back
> to where they were, at least the first (or first few, unless they
> clicked a "go away" thing) times they encountered the 'feature'. I'm
> not sure how to idiot/'masses'-proof such a thing. I have a lot of
> experience with something happening and it confusing users with my
> parents and basically everything new to them on a computer. Even the
> bouncing icons on Mac OS X can get left alone go on for days with some
> people.

I *think* (not sure) the tab interface I mocked up would work more or
less okay in this matter. The fact that a new tab would appear and
the old one would lose focus might be enough. It would also be
interesting if the new workspace automatically appeared with a
different background, so visually it would be very evident that it
was not the windows that closed.

> Sure by default that top bar isn't in use but I haven't gotten around
> to setting up and learning hotkeys for all of my most used
> applications so that top bar is basically entirely filled with little
> shortcut icons. (I would love to have a place for a bunch of little
> launch application buttons not in a menu or in one of those Gnome
> drawer applets, almost like a Mac OS X dock, but that fits in with the
> default Ubuntu panel setup and if the tabs are chosen, fits in with
> that too.)

You might want to take a look at those:

DockbarX
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=101604

Talika
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Talika+applet?content=118267