On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:09 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:

On 01/31/2013 08:13 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. wrote:

I cannot understand why so many people were up in arms about the Gnome
desktop...or the Unity one.

Try watching somebody with Parkinson's try to use either of them and you'll understand. Or, consider somebody like me who wants certain programs to be on certain workspaces and doesn't want to have go guess where the DE decided to put them.

It is certainly possible to have fixed number of workspaces in GNOME 3 and this has become incrementally easier to tweak in Fedora 18. gnome-tweak-tool has a clear option to do that. Also you can install the following extension to determine which app gets launched automatically in which specific workspace.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/16/auto-move-windows/

Install this extension and use gnome-shell-extension-prefs GUI to configure it or you can do it via the command line if you want to script this

https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Extensions/auto-move-windows

Rahul