On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 17:07 +0100, Filip Štědronský wrote: > Hi, > It's not just about small windows. I dare say most of the > windows we use today are maximized (be it browser, mail client, > text editor). The workspace concept is useful particularly for > _those_. Because when I have several such maximized windows > opened (any way of switching between them from the old-school > Alt+Tab to expose-like views is slow and costly). However, > switching workspaces can be lighting fast. If I assign > keystrokes to each (which is the only reasonable way > of switching workspaces anyway), I can get _directly_ to the one > I want. For example I know I have my browser running > at workspace, so I press Super+F3 or sth similar and I > _am there_. It takes about a tenth of a second. When I am > copying information from a website (WS 3) to a document (WS 5) > and sometimes I need a dictionary (WS 6), I am just alternately > pressing Super+F3 and Super+F5 and even the occasional Super+F6 > doesn't mess it up. Because the keystrokes are absolute, > context-independent. You don't have to think about where you > are, just about where you want to go. And you go right there, > with one keystroke, you don't have to look for the right > application, either by repeatedly pressing Alt+Tab or by looking > it up in some kind of an overview. It's useful from three > windows upwards and especially for the "static" ones that you > access a lot (browser, IM, etc.). Anytime I want to google > something in the middle of any work, I just press Super+F3 > Ctrl+K <query> Return. Less than a second.
that's a good example of exactly the thing I was missing, thanks - so the question stands, how do we make people like me aware of it? Of course, also remember that we came *into* this side-track on a discussion about making alt-tab behaviour more predictable. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
