Re: A Violent Realisation [Was: Preferences]

[Travis Saling <trav u washington edu>]

> > [ for the record, I prefer viewports over workspaces, as I like to think 
> > of them as being laid out in a plane rather than as a stack of cards.  I 
> > think this is similar to the reason why many people seem to prefer 
> > Xinerama over traditional multi screen X setups.  People who prefer 
> > workspaces are obviously on crack. ]
> 
> Again. The layout of the "screens" really has nothing to do with viewports 
> versus workspaces. Both could implement any layout.

Right, but the decision has been made not to do this, as far as I can
tell. See the discussion on my bug report regarding the workspace
pseudo-layout issue.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75613

So it seems to me that saying "both could be implemented" isn't really a
valid response when the decision has already been made to not do it at
all (or, more correctly, to leave in place the currently broken behavior
in Gnome2).

Okay, back to lurking...

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