Rafał Lichwała <ra...@siliconet.pl> writes:

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>> > But that's not a solution for me - I don't like GNOME
>> +1
>>
>> There are many reasons why I don't use GNOME.
>>
>> One reason is that I read it was designed with the premise that
>> users only do one task at a time, hence use one program in full
>> screen at a time.

I was not aware of this, but it is indeed how I use it.

> Ohh really? I didn't know about that. Would you drop some link with
> source of such statement here please?
> If that's true, I think it is catastrophic decision in my opinion...
> Humans are multitasking creatures (some of them more, some of them
> less... but still MULTI-tasking) and they easily switch between
> contexts, so why OS's graphic environment would be limiting of this
> nature? (that's a bad idea...)

You can still switch between contexts, they are just on different
desktops.  I have Emacs (usually with two frames, i.e. windows) on one
desktop, a browser on another, lots of desktops each with a tmux session
on a different machine.  I have pretty much always worked like this,
since using FVWM on Potato and some SGI machines which were around back
then.  I don't think it has prevented me from multitasking, although I
am indeed currently writing in only one window on one desktop, so maybe
I am missing out on something ...

Also it is pretty easy to move windows onto other desktops if I do need
to compare or copy something The only thing I don't like about the
default Gnome set up is that the desktops are aligned linearly, so I use
the 'Workspace Matrix' plug-in to have 4 rows of 2 desktops.

But its horse for courses, I guess.

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Cheers,

Loris

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