Re: What does gnome-shell give us?

[Steve Frécinaux <nudrema gmail com>]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le samedi 03 octobre 2009 à 00:03 +0200, Rodrigo Moya a écrit : 
> > the only few I can think of are some that you really want 1 instance of:
> >
> > * mail application (evolution)
>
> Add the RSS reader (but this kind of content is very similar to email).
>
> > * IM (pidgin, skype, xchat, etc)
>
> * Media player (rhythmbox, banshee)
>
> I also like to have only one browser window, but I guess this is where
> taste starts to matter.

I tend to have one browser window per workspace, as I'm organizing my 
work in the "one activity per workspace" fashion (which fits gnome-shell 
pretty closely right now, and which I hope it won't change).

I end up with such a layout:

workspace 1:
  - email, xchat, IM buddy list and dialogues
  - web browser with pages like online rss reader

workspace 2..n:
  - central activity
    - IDE or terminal instances for hacking/webadmin/etc
    - openoffice windows for redaction
    - nautilus spatial mode instances
    - etc.
  - eventual browser window for topic-centered documentation:
    - how to do this and that
    - API docs
    - etc.
  - eventual IM windows to colleagues about the activity.

In such an activity-centered use of applications/workspaces, not being 
able to put windowsof the same app accross workspaces is clearly a bad 
thing.

Note that currently, things like alt-tab or overview window show all the 
applications for all the workspaces, but there is also a clear 
distinction of what's on the current workspace vs what's on other ones:
- alt-tab has a separator between apps which have a window on the
  current workspace and other apps
- application's window list has a separator between windows on the
  current workspace and other windows.