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>Alt+Tab is completely broken This is kind of an opinion. There is no rule book that says it needs to behave a certain way. I prefer this. >ruining the very p

by danford 12y ago

>Alt+Tab is completely broken This is kind of an opinion. There is no rule book that says it needs to behave a certain way. I prefer this. >ruining the very purpose of virtual desktops I use virtual desktops to separate windows in overview mode so when they're presented for picking they aren't really small. And also for organization. >Gnome's "workspaces" are not as powerful as traditional virtual desktops. The biggest problem is that they're dynamic: for example Gnome won't let you have an empty workspace - it will kill it and re-arrange apps from adjacent workspaces to fill the space. Why would you need an empty workspace (except at the end, which gnome provides)? Seems to make since to me. It doesn't really "re-arrange apps" it just moves the work spaces to fill in the empty gap. >Last, but not least, Gnome's way of launching apps gives me nausea: it insists on animating every pixel on my 30" desktop every time I want to launch an application. Eh.. Animations aren't for everyone. They have not bothered me though, and I think for most users it provides a better experience than just having things "happen". >Finally, Unity is much more responsive and less buggy I'm running gnome 3.11 on an i5 with intel graphics also, and it seems pretty snappy, after all, it's just javascript. I have not experienced any bugs outside of experimental software I installed. To be honest, I have never experienced a snappier desktop than gnome 3.

asdfaoeu 12y ago
> This is kind of an opinion. There is no rule book that says it needs to behave a certain way. I prefer this. In case you wanted more proof of this I think both of these are wrong and it should be by window not application. Thankfully MATE does this and is coincidentally available now in Ubuntu 14.04.
- sampo 12y ago
  > MATE does this That's also the default on Xfce.
- yebyen 12y ago
  Alt+` does this, right next to Alt+Tab, within a single application. So if you wanted to pick a particular window, and you have five apps with three windows each open, instead of pressing Alt+Tab ceil~14 times, you press Alt+Tab until you have the app you want (possibly zero times) then Alt+`, potentially saving 12 or more keypresses.
  - andrewaylett 12y ago
    Or, sometimes even better, press Alt-Tab once, then hold Alt and use your mouse to select which app then which window you want.
gknoy 12y ago
Why would you need an empty workspace (except at the end, which gnome provides)? Seems to make since to me. It doesn't really "re-arrange apps" it just moves the work spaces to fill in the empty gap. To each their own, I guess, but I think it's related to how we mentally map our workspace. For example, I know that my code editor and shell are on workspace 2, and my time tracker and music player are on workspace 4, so it's two keystrokes to get between them. If workspace 3 were munched due to being empty (I normally use it for Github and code review), it would be __very__ jarring to be in the wrong workspace when I switched workspaces twice to the left from my last workspace. In practice, that's not likely to happen to me often, since I leave all of my workspaces open and populated nearly all the time, but it's still an option that I would turn off if I could.

by danford 12y ago

asdfaoeu 12y ago

> This is kind of an opinion. There is no rule book that says it needs to behave a certain way. I prefer this. In case you wanted more proof of this I think both of these are wrong and it should be by window not application. Thankfully MATE does this and is coincidentally available now in Ubuntu 14.04.

sampo 12y ago
> MATE does this That's also the default on Xfce.
yebyen 12y ago
Alt+` does this, right next to Alt+Tab, within a single application. So if you wanted to pick a particular window, and you have five apps with three windows each open, instead of pressing Alt+Tab ceil~14 times, you press Alt+Tab until you have the app you want (possibly zero times) then Alt+`, potentially saving 12 or more keypresses.
- andrewaylett 12y ago
  Or, sometimes even better, press Alt-Tab once, then hold Alt and use your mouse to select which app then which window you want.

gknoy 12y ago

Why would you need an empty workspace (except at the end, which gnome provides)? Seems to make since to me. It doesn't really "re-arrange apps" it just moves the work spaces to fill in the empty gap. To each their own, I guess, but I think it's related to how we mentally map our workspace. For example, I know that my code editor and shell are on workspace 2, and my time tracker and music player are on workspace 4, so it's two keystrokes to get between them. If workspace 3 were munched due to being empty (I normally use it for Github and code review), it would be __very__ jarring to be in the wrong workspace when I switched workspaces twice to the left from my last workspace. In practice, that's not likely to happen to me often, since I leave all of my workspaces open and populated nearly all the time, but it's still an option that I would turn off if I could.