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Why bother having apps you need in a given context be in a separate workspace instead of, say, tiling them so you can look at them all at once? I have one monit
by pluc 4y ago
Why bother having apps you need in a given context be in a separate workspace instead of, say, tiling them so you can look at them all at once? I have one monitor for Slack/shells and one monitor for browser/IDE.. I see everything without needing to touch a thing
- politician 4y agoTiling can work if you have a large enough screen. Consider, however, folks that use a larger font size to reduce eye strain and work on a smaller laptop screen for portability. Also, there's a lot to be said for arranging your work area for focus and productivity -- eliminate unproductive pixels. If I was 22 years old and had a large wraparound gaming monitor, then a tiling approach would probably work well. Truly, that approach did work for me when I was in my 20s. I'm still pretty interested in the VR office idea, but haven't bit bullet on it yet.
- pluc 4y agoI actually hadn't considered laptops at all, since even those are usually hooked up to multiple monitors in work scenario but you have good points both on the screen and font sizes!
- fsckboy 4y agolet's say you have a set of apps for a given context tiled on your screen, a shell or two, debugger, ide, editor, webpages for documentation... now you want to look at a different context with the same windowing complexity. You just switch to a different workspace and it's all laid out for you. Then you can go back. How would you accomplish that without workspaces?
- pluc 4y agoI get that use case, but I haven't seen the need for a different context with the same windowing complexity. I'm not sure I would want a set of windows I can confuse with another? Maybe for working on different branches/environments or when running complex infrastructure diffs?