On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Pat Suwalski <p...@suwalski.net> wrote:
> On 25/02/11 02:20 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > >> So out of curiosity, what sort of tasks do both you and Robert do if >> you don't mind me being nosy? >> > > Normal day-to-day work and development. I have tonnes of windows opened, > because I have to. > Right, I figured that you were of the developer type. Lots of windows, compiling and what not. I'm in a similar boat when I'm working on an IT issue. > > I alt-tab between windows (Process/Window Grouping makes this a real pain), > minimize them when I need to focus (mentally). When I don't need one > (usually a browser), I use Ctrl-W or Ctrl-Q to close it. I only use the > close button when my left hand isn't free, in fact (coffee?). Occasionally > alt-F4 is appropriate if the others aren't implemented and my hands are > already on the keyboard. > > OK. > I depend on the panel list of icons, because they show me a one-to-one > mapping of my windows, minimized or not, *in the order I opened them*. This > is where the Win7 strip definitely doesn't cut it for me, gnome-shell makes > it much more difficult, and MacOSX makes me somewhat unproductive. > You probably can write an extension.. Probably as we expose different parts of GNOME through the shell. > > Lastly, I absolutely hate virtual desktops. That might be an overstatement, > but I avoid using them. Things get lost very easily, and it's a pain to set > them up on every boot. I find a single desktop over two monitors the right > balance. I'll keep a blank extra virtual desktop for when I need to quickly > do something in programs that open way too many windows, like Gimp. That > last example is the only thing I like about the concept of workspaces in > Mutter. > > I use virtual spaces a lot. I cannot have more than 4-5 windows open at at time. > I think a better example, though, might be my brother. He's a > uni-student/gamer, and he doesn't like to reboot, ever. He has at any given > time, at least 25 Firefox or Chrome tabs open. He has at least 20 windows in > his panel as well, right where he likes them. I predict that he would be > very uncomfortable without that window-to-panel relation as well. > > As an exercise, given an env like GNOME 3 and you had to come up with a new methodology what would you do? I found that changing to GNOME 3, no minimize wasn't as bad as I thought it would be provided I keep the number of windows open to a minimal of 4. There are a couple of reasons where I wanted to use the minimize: 1) privacy, someone is coming into my cube, and I wanted to minimize for instance my GNOME irc channel window. Or I'm about to make a screenshot and I don't want to show certain windows 2) I have a jhbuild or some other thing sprouting debug messages and it's distracting me. this is where the shelf or whatever seems like a good idea.. Moving to another workspace is also just as good in this case, if it is a jhbuild, but not if it is part of a task of a cycle of compiling/debugging. 3) An application is opening sub windows that I don't currently want to see right now other than that it has been smooth. sri
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