I am very much in favor of "no auto close" or "no auto close for the first N desktops".
I'll try to make an extensions if I find the time. *Rationale* I use my desktops per topic and they remain open for a long time. So I know what is on which, and I hate it when they renumber. I prefer an empty slot in between, that can be reassigned to a new topic I can also not use per application auto sorting because most desktops have the same apps (editor, terminal, browser) Usecase scenario Nr 1 has my email and agenda (2 browser windows) Nr 2 has a paper I'm writing (a terminal, editor, pdf viewer, browser and some other stuff) Nr 3 has my gnome shell hacking (many terminals, browsers with docs, an editor,...) Nr 4 has a prototype I'm working on (eclipse, terminal, editor, browsers with docs) Say I'm working on the paper, After some time I go to nr 1 (check mail), back to 2, quickly check some details in 3, back to 2; back to 1 (email), back to 2 Browser crashes. I kill the browser. Nr 1 is gone. (no more windows) Now I can start moving all windows to the next desktop, so as to free a new nr 1 (haven't found a good way to do it yet) Wouter On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 22:18, Jesse Hutton <jesse.hut...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Federico Mena Quintero < > feder...@gnome.org> wrote: > >> On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 17:41 +0200, Ralph Hofmann wrote: >> >> > I use my workspaces based on topics. Workspace 2 is multimedia, >> > workspace 3 is Gimp and so on. I have 6 workspaces. >> > >> > So I would like to be able to send an application for example to >> > workspace 6 even if workspace 5 doesn't exist yet. >> >> The problem is that empty workspaces disappear. >> >> > I think that behavior could be improved by not closing empty workspaces > automatically. When one has 5 workspaces open, is on workspace 3 and closes > the last open window there, they suddenly have the rug pulled out from under > them (on current F15, at least); they're dropped into overview mode and > suddenly find themselves on the last empty workspace, which has now become > #4 since what was #3 disappeared. > > It's extremely jarring and unintuitive to be teleported like that. It's > also comical how if you are on workspace 1 with a single application window > open in Gnome Shell and you focus the window and hit ctrl + shift + alt down > repeatedly you get this kind of yoyo effect where you go to workspace 2, but > then are suddenly jerked back to 1 since there's nothing there anymore and > it disappears. It would make more sense if it just created new workspaces to > place the window on and didn't close the empty ones, which would fit in > nicely with the above proposal. > > Jesse > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > gnome-shell-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > >
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