Yes, I use them and so do the people for whom I have installed Linux. My own use is with Fluxbox on Debian. I have six or more depending, and generally start up each app on a new desktop. Fluxbox also allows you to put open apps into tabs on one desktop, which is useful if working on multiple sources of data while writing a document citing them or drawing on them, and I use that when its useful. The other nice thing with Fluxbox is that dragging a window off screen moves it to the next desktop. So since all my applications are on shortcuts I often just open in one desktop and drag.
Others, I now install Debian with MATE, that being the closest thing to the last good version of Gnome before the Gnome people lost their senses. MATE is brilliant, and if you have not tried it, do. Never a single question after the first introduction about how to do things in it. It just gets out of the way. I don't like a conventional desktop which is why I use Fluxbox myself, but if people want one or are used to one, MATE is the way to go for them. The first indicator that someone moving from Windows has integrated Linux is that they start using multiple desktops spontaneously. I have set up four, explain how to make more if you want, and encourage them to also do one per app, leaving the mail client and browser open all the time, for instance, and working on documents on another desktop, and that is what they do. I set it up with the windows in the bottom panel in a row, so its easy to glance and see where you are. The thing that makes them do it is when they see that the desktop you temporarily leave stays exactly the same when you leave it and then come back to it, and when they see you don't any longer have to find windows one behind the other. I am careful to make sure they understand how to move a window from one desk to another, tell which is where with the icons. You have to take the time and let people practice, but once they have got it, they wonder how they managed without it. -- Sent from: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Revolution-User-f278306.html _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
