On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 02:53:47PM +0100, Kamil Paral wrote:
I'm a heavy user of workspaces, I constantly switch between them.
I mostly
don't put two maximized windows on the same workspace. I also use
workspaces to separate apps by type of work, so e.g. a web browser on the
first workspace, dev tools or perhaps VMs on the second, a chat on the
third, a personal browser on the fourth, etc.
Yeah, I'm ending up with a browser window on every workspace with lots of
duplicate tabs.
Long ago I had a setup where I had named workspaces and had configured
particular tools to launch on specific ones. That was very productive for
me. The GNOME workflow doesn't support that very well -- instead, it's great
for ad-hoc grouping and moving things out of the way. You can get it all set
up, but when you have to reboot and restart things it's all gone.
> * That said, when using the scroll wheel, the switch workspace
animation
> feels too _fast_. It's easy to get lost if I have more than two
> workspaces. I know, it's all subjective, but that's my impression.
Do you have a free-scrolling wheel? When using a wheel with dents, the
switching feels absolutely fine for me. Although my mind has problems
remembering whether scrolling up means moving left or right, perhaps I'll
remember it after longer usage.
Yes, free scrolling wheel. Interestingly I have no problem with the
direction mapping -- whatever it is doing seems obvious to me.
You can enable "Center new windows" in the Tweak tool.
It's the lesser evil
for me. It would be great if Shell could be a bit more friendly in choosing
Ooh, thanks!
> * A dash-to-dock feature I miss: I want the terminal icon to
launch a
> new window rather than focusing an existing one. I know that's not new
> in this but it'd be nice to not have to use this extension. I might be
> able to train myself to middle-click, but I'd rather swap the
> behavior.
>
Just the terminal icon, or any icon? In the first case, that would make it
inconsistent, and in the second case, that would make it less user
friendly, I feel. I defined a custom shortcut to launch gnome-terminal in
Hmmm, good point. Mostly just the terminal, but in general, I use the
overview to switch between windows not the dash, so clicking on an icon
there to get an existing window just isn't something I do.
Thanks -- yes that's exactly it.
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