On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:16:28 +0300 Dimitar Zhekov <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:51:21 +0100 > Nick Treleaven <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:30:25 +1000 > > Erik de Castro Lopo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Thanks for your work on this. From a very brief look the design looks > > > > good but I haven't tested it. > > > > > > As I think Dimitar mentioned, windows has named rather than numbered > > > workspaces. It would be relatively trivial to rework my patch so that > > > the function that finds the workspace number instead generates a > > > string for the workspace number. > > > > > > Let me know if you want this and I'll rejig and resubmit the > > > patch. > > > > I suppose so. I've never heard of multiple workspaces on Windows other > > than by non-standard utilities so any links would be appreciated. > > Any NT-system supports "virtual desktops". Win 9x does not. > > google site:msdn.microsoft.com Window Station and Desktop Functions, > http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc817881.aspx > > For example, the login screen is on separate desktop, with a higher > level of propection that the regular ones; XP "fast user switching" > creates per-user window stations, and desktops within them. > > Almost no applications support these. For example, if you run FF on two > desktops, the 2nd instance will say "FF is already running" and exit. > Windows itself does not handle them very well: Task Manager and the > Ctrl-Alt-Del window are always displayed on the initial desktop, but > the system does not switch to it, and it looks like nothing happened. OK, thanks. It seems it's not that important to support Windows workspaces. Regards, Nick _______________________________________________ Geany-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany-devel
