Re: Move to Workspace (Right | Left) Proposal

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 21:12, Britt Selvitelle wrote:
> I'd like to discuss the removal of "Move to Workspace Right/Left" from
> the right click context menu for windows.   The HIG specifies that context
> menus should be kept as simple as possible [1]. 

Right, but hiding *all* the "move to" options isn't making it as simple as possible (it forces an extra layer of menu navigation regardless of which workspace you want to move it to, when nine times out of ten you want to move it to an adjacent one), and the HIG also says you shouldn't really have submenus in context menus anyway.  

The current design was intended to put the most frequently-used move-to operations at the top level, whilst accepting that there isn't really much alternative to a submenu if you still want all the other options to be available:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110904

Certainly some people (including me) use it a lot:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153353

Greg Merchan suggested a different approach altogether which might be worth considering:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126674

Cheeri,
Calum.

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