Re: What does gnome-shell give us?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 13:46 -0500, Shaun McCance 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?

Since Colin didn't answer this. No. An app can have windows on multiple
workspaces, and I can't imagine that we'll change it.

(I'm not sure what Colin meant.)

- Owen