On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 06:14:15PM +0100, Adam Chodorowski wrote: > 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.
> >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. In my experience of pager use (long time Fvwm fan I am -- I use Fvwm on my desktop and Ion on my laptop) is that most of the time you use it to move yourself to a different workspace, and it's only sometimes that one uses it to move windows around, and that's usually to move a particular window to your current workspace temporarily. > 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). 3. Quickly see which workspace you're currently in. This can be helpful if you tend to have workspaces with similar layouts/appearance (such as three or four xterms arranged in a grid, as I do) (I never did manage to get that "workspace indicator" script working -- has anybody made an up-to-date statusbar plugin to do that?) > >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.] Heh, you make my modest eight workspaces look trivial... Kathryn Andersen -- _--_|\ | Kathryn Andersen <http://www.katspace.com> / \ | \_.--.*/ | GenFicCrit mailing list <http://www.katspace.com/gen_fic_crit/> v | ------------| Melbourne -> Victoria -> Australia -> Southern Hemisphere Maranatha! | -> Earth -> Sol -> Milky Way Galaxy -> Universe
