On Feb 25, 2011, at 16:33, Robert Park wrote: > Oh, ok. Well, I'm an app developer and I have two physical displays. > Before I got the second display (nearly 10 years ago now) I was a > heavy user of workspaces, but since getting the second screen, I have > literally never once used more than one virtual workspace. > > My typical workflow is like this: left screen contains a maximized > gedit window, right screen contains maximized firefox window. Both > will be open with many tabs at any given time (firefox displaying API > reference docs, and gedit editing various files for my current > project). Any non-maximized window, such as empathy chat window or a > terminal or whatever, goes onto the left screen. I never, ever need to > minimize anything because if there's ever anything that I don't want > to look at, I just bring gedit to the front and everything else > disappears.
Funny how we both use workspaces the same way, and both do essentially the same task, but have exactly different uses of the minimize button. I think my values simply come from always having enjoyed and liked the spatially-oriented desktop. I was very sad when two events happened in GNOME: 1) Nautilus switched away from spatial-by-default 2) Nautilus stopped supporting "homedir as desktop" I thought those were both fantastic ways to go, but it explains why I like to be able to manipulate the clutter on my desktop rather than simplify it into more group/task-oriented windows. --Pat PS: Love the photography. _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list