On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:10:42 +0100, Giles Constant
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 16:03, John Robson wrote:
A work colleague quite likes ion, but feels he would miss the little
"desktop preview" function available in the gnome taskbar, showing what
is running on each virtual workspace.
I don't use a dock at all and am wondering if there is such an
application available, if onyone out there is using it could they make
available a screenshot.
It hasn't got one, although I don't think it needs one - with Ion, you
generally think where you're going to open a window, then open it, rather
than open a window then try and think where to put it.
I think people actually mainly use such pagers to:
1. switch workspaces quickly with the mouse (you could implement this in
Ion with a menu, but that's not as quick to use).
2. Quickly find the right window (only works if you have very few windows
in each workspace).
In other words, you're far less likely to forget where your windows are,
because they're usually in the most appropriate place!
This doesn't really work when you have 200+ windows open (like I normally
have). OTOH, a graphical pager is also completely useless in this case.
The most usable way for me to find the right window is query_gotoclient()
(ALT-G in the default bindings, if I remember correctly). [I also have
100+ tabs (in roughly 25-30 windows) in Opera open, which makes
query_gotoclient() less usable, but a "normal" Ion configuration doesn't
scale that well to 400+ windows.]
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Adam Chodorowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
