Gnome-shell workspaces (Was Re: Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop)

[Samuel Sieb]

On 02/09/2013 03:34 AM, Ian Malone wrote:
> 1. I no longer use workspaces to manage different tasks unless there
> are lots of windows and then I sometimes overflow onto 2. This is
> because they're less useful as you now can't switch without going to
> the activities view and they aren't segregated well. At work I have a
> KDE desktop and use four routinely.

On my laptop, I have four workspaces.  One for email, one for Eclipse, 
one for my pile of browser windows, and one for other stuff.  I also 
have a terminal with many tabs in each workspace.  Other than the 
standard shortcuts for switching between workspaces (which I rarely 
use), I have mapped <Logo>[1-4] to directly switch between workspaces. 
I rarely need to go to the overview other than starting programs.

As an aside, when I first saw gnome-shell, I thought it would be 
horrible to use.  But after a while of using it, finding 
gnome-tweak-tool, and installing a couple of extensions, I've been quite 
happy with it.  I actually think it's more keyboard friendly than Gnome 
2 was.