Jo-Erlend Schinstad schreef op di 19-04-2011 om 15:56 [+0200]: > 2: workspaces as "contexts" > > Workspaces doesn't currently seem very useful to me. It can be nice if > you have windows layed out in a certain way, but other than that, I > don't think I'll use them very much. I think they would be very much > more useful and user friendly if the super-w didn't display windows > from other workspaces, but was limited only to the current workspace > like alt+tab is.
You can fix this with CCSM by changing the keybindings for the compiz "Scale" plugin if you want. > I always use workspaces as "contexts". That is, I > have a workspace where I do general stuff like surfing and chatting > with friends for no particular purpose. I also have one workspace that > I use when I play guitar and sing, etc, I have one for managing my > network of physical and virtual machines and one I use for > development. I work with different files and websites in these > contexts so I open new instances of Nautilus and Firefox. This is > probably the only time I open more than one instance of these > applications since both supports tabs very well. > For my workflow, it would be extremely useful if the launcher and > super-w was "context aware" so that pressing super-1 would open only > the Nautilus relevant to my current work and super-2 would switch to > my relevant Firefox. That is to say that if I'm in my general context > with Firefox and Nautilus open, then switch to a new context, pressing > super-1 and super-2 would open new instances of those applications, > and then later switch between those instances in this context only. > When switching between contexts, the default browser in the context > you switch to should be set as the one to open links. (This has been a > problem for me for ages). Opening a link from gnome-terminal in my > Guitar context should never result in the link being opened in my VM > Management context, for instance. This helps me stay focused on my > current tasks. +1000 from me on fixing that behaviour for Firefox etc. :) (I think it might require more workspace-awareness by the applications themselves and/or maybe the GUI toolkits though?) -- Jan Claeys -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
