On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 09:19 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat > <[email protected]> wrote: > Le samedi 14 mai 2011 à 10:51 -0400, G. Michael Carter a écrit : > > Usually I work on dual 24" monitors so I'll have maybe 2 virtual > > windows open. But I was working on a laptop all this week and with > > the 15" screen I've had about 9 workspaces going. > > Moving between them I find is slowing me down in Gnome 3. > > One thing slowing me down is when I need to go from 1 to 9. > In System Settings->Keyboard->Shortcuts->Navigation, you can set > keybindings to move to workspaces. Use something involving numbers, >and you'll be able to get directly to the workspace you want.
+1 But I only see navigation shortcuts available for "Switch to workspace 1" (which I assign to Alt-Shift-1) and "Switch to workspace 2" (which I assign to Alt-Shift-2). I don't know how you'd add 3, 4, 5, etc... Generally I think a navigation shortcut for switch to last workspace [where "last" is the highest numbered workstation, not the chronologically previous] would be useful. Then one could jump all the way down and one up [for example] vs. down, down, down, down, down. > That's probably the best solution, since people using many workspaces > are relatively rare, and are able to customize their keybindings. Most > users are likely to use only a few of them (I think, but of course > I've no data on that). I believe this is true; I find that more than five starts to result in a loss of productivity. I do not believe a human can effectively multitask to that level [an individual may believe that they can - but they're deluded]. > 9 is a lot of desktops! +1 > I use a max of 6 I believe +1 > I never used the grid mode because it started getting complicated on > where all my windows was. So then I send up panning around looking > for whatever window I wanted. Exactly, a grid doesn't help. Then you just have to navigate in multiple dimensions; that is worse, no better. > Honestly, I don't know if there is a particularly efficient way to > deal with 9 workspaces that doesn't involve putting numbers or some > other special function to deal with your particular workflow. Or... there is just no way to efficiently deal with 9 workspaces - period. _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
