Re: GNOME 2.0 feedback

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 23 Jul 2002, Calum Benson wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-07-23 at 15:33, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 
> > Another thing that may help the usability of the pager would be if the 
> > window you moused over prelighted in the pager. This way it might be 
> > easier to pick the right window. Right now it can be hard for small 
> > windows.
> > 
> > Some sort of zooming would perhaps work too, but it sounds a bit hard to 
> > get right. I mean, where do you zoom it to? and when?
> 
> Before do anything to it, I'd be wanting to know how many people
> actually want to move their windows around in such a small space (even
> between workspaces) and why, when there are quicker and easier ways
> available...

I use it to move windows between workspaces because it gives me a visual 
indication of where i'm gonna move the window. It means i don't have to 
calculate the number of the workspace i need to drop the window in and 
then look for the right workspace name in the menu.

Alt-drag and then switch workspace using the keyboard works used to work 
in metacity, and it's pretty quick, but that was lost when the Alt-Fx
keybindings were removed.

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