Silly iPod touch keeps goofing up my email and sending before I finish. Here's the poll: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/04/workspaces-and-how-we-use-them.html
On Apr 23, 2010, at 7:02 AM, Luke Benstead <kaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 23 April 2010 14:17, Roth Robert <evf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have just been looking at the gnome-shell wikis, and I have found >> some >> mockups for suggested window management. I think the idea is quite >> good, >> could replace the workspaces. Someone has already sent a mail with >> a mockup >> similar to these, but this is a bit more detailed... check them out. >> http://live.gnome.org/GroupBasedWindowManagement > > That's basically what I was saying (and implementing). Although I fail > to see what the advantage of re-ordering the groups would be, dragging > the windows between them would be enough IMO. > > The other part of my idea is to merge the concepts of old style system > tray icons (e.g. one click to maximize/minimize) with pinned > application windows (e.g. those that appear on all desktops). I think > we can treat these in the same way and they can form a special "Pinned > apps" group like the ones in the mockup. This will allow to nicely > handle apps that don't support indicators, and also Wine applications > that use XEmbed. However, I'm not keen on allowing menus - I don't > wanna recreate the old notification area - so Wine compatibility still > needs some thought. > > I've attached a screenshot of what I have so far. It currently only > scans the workspaces at start up (it doesn't listen for window actions > yet) and only works with Compiz disabled because Compiz treats its > multiple workspaces as one really big one which means I need to do > some programmatic trickery to determine where windows actually are. > Still, WIP. > > Luke. > <Screenshot-test_window.py.png> > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
