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[Tyler Brainerd <tylerbrainerd@xxxxxxxxx>]

In the interest of further thought on this subject, I posted a poll in
popular blog OMG! Ubuntu just a few minutes ago. Later today I'll put
one up at the forums as well, just to try to get a feel from the
community how workspaces are used and how they could be used in the
future.

On Apr 23, 2010, at 7:02 AM, Luke Benstead <kazade@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 23 April 2010 14:17, Roth Robert <evfool@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I have just been looking at the gnome-shell wikis, and I have found
>> some
>> mockups for suggested window management. I think the idea is quite
>> good,
>> could replace the workspaces. Someone has already sent a mail with
>> a mockup
>> similar to these, but this is a bit more detailed... check them out.
>> http://live.gnome.org/GroupBasedWindowManagement
>
> That's basically what I was saying (and implementing). Although I fail
> to see what the advantage of re-ordering the groups would be, dragging
> the windows between them would be enough IMO.
>
> The other part of my idea is to merge the concepts of old style system
> tray icons (e.g. one click to maximize/minimize) with pinned
> application windows (e.g. those that appear on all desktops). I think
> we can treat these in the same way and they can form a special "Pinned
> apps" group like the ones in the mockup. This will allow to nicely
> handle apps that don't support indicators, and also Wine applications
> that use XEmbed. However, I'm not keen on allowing menus - I don't
> wanna recreate the old notification area - so Wine compatibility still
> needs some thought.
>
> I've attached a screenshot of what I have so far. It currently only
> scans the workspaces at start up (it doesn't listen for window actions
> yet) and only works with Compiz disabled because Compiz treats its
> multiple workspaces as one really big one which means I need to do
> some programmatic trickery to determine where windows actually are.
> Still, WIP.
>
> Luke.
> <Screenshot-test_window.py.png>
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