On Saturday, May 14, 2011 16:07:23 Diego Fernandez wrote: > you don't have to be working on all 9 at the same time. I have plenty > of computer resources and leaving my windows open in its assigned > workspace for later use is much more efficient than closing them all > and reopening later. Nowadays it's common to have 8gb or RAM... if > you're not leaving your applications open what's the point of it?
+1 I rarely close any application, except in the case it hangs or something gets b0rked (like Opera's JS engine :)). > I disagree, you set up each workspace for a certain purpose whether > you have things open on it or not. You will always remember spacially > which workspace is which and takes no thought to navigate to it. A > real life analogy is someone that has a drawing desk, a computer desk, > a writing desk, a filing desk and a desk with the tv. Each desk is > stationary and you move to it as you need it. Granted sometimes you > might have to reach over to another desk to grab something you need > for the current task, but it's still more efficient. +1 I find it way more efficient to remember where my windows are spatially. Which of course I only did the first one or two weeks I started using 9 workspaces in a 3x3 grid (previously I used 8 in a 2x4 array). After getting used to it, I always know where my mail is, my browser(s), my music, my terminal, etc. > Although I don't need more than 6, there's a perfectly efficient way > to use 9. You assign key shortcuts to your num key pad to match your > gridded workspaces. You wont even have to navigate it with the arrows > since it's already organized spatially, but even if you choose the > arrows you can get to any workspace within 4 key strokes (that's going > from corner to corner) as opposed to 9 in a vertical arrangement +1 I like working with maximized apps, and using 9 workspaces I have all my main apps (sans IM) maximized. Even though I have a 23" display on my desktop, I never really got the hang of having several windows on the same workspace and not having any of them maximized (and always preferred a taskbar to alt-tab, if I may say so and not get crucified :)). Sure, I may not be the common example of a user, but I certainly am not the only one of my kind. Cheers Juan Manuel _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
