On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 14:38 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 18:56 +0000, Colin Walters wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> > > wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 18:37 +0000, Colin Walters wrote: > > > > > > > > * Actual design for how workspaces behave (We didn't really > > have this > > > in any consistent way, but now is an opportunity to fix it > > right, e.g. > > > make moving an application to a workspace a persistent > > operation, etc. > > > Actually a lot of cool things are enabled when we have an > > application > > > based system) > > > > > > Please excuse my ignorance here. Are you saying that an > > application > > as a whole (i.e. all of its windows) exists on only one > > workspace? > > Like the very broken way workspaces behave on OS X? > > > > > > Well...I don't want to dive into design, more note that the > > possibility exists to improve things given that we have two > > fundamental improvements in having application tracking, and fixing > > the split between UI and WM. > > All right, I'm not trying to troll here. But I'm working very > hard on revamping the user experience in Yelp to keep it more > focused on the content you're looking at. Yelp would be very > broken if it were constrained to a single workspace. In fact, > Yelp windows should generally feel more like utility windows > than a part of the Yelp application. > > It's important to me to know design points like this. I've > seen precious little communication about this sort of stuff. > I see whizbang screencasts from time to time, but I haven't > really seen real dialog about the user experience that we're > trying to create, especially with respect to how it impacts > the rest of the desktop. Hmm. I guess that other applications which should not be one-workspace-only include at least: - gedit - gnome-terminal In fact I'm not able to think about 1 application which I'd like to have on one workspace except maybe gimp (but they are fixing it). I prefer solution one-workspace-per-task and different tasks may involve the same programs. I cannot see how it works in practice unfortunately (mutter refuses to start-up on my hardware). Regards
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