The message 200504090845.01735.gt@pobox.com from Graham gt@pobox.com contains these words:
On Friday 08 April 2005 22:20, Anthony Anson wrote:
There are many other advantages of multiple workspaces (OK desktops if you prefer), but the above illustrates the reasons why I find them so convenient.
Yes, fine. You can though, even in Windows, get the same results in most programs just by minimising one document and opening another, minimise that, etc.
But why bother when it's so much easier to click a taskbar icon and get a pre-prepared environment?
I would dispute that it is any easier - in fact, I'd think it was quite the reverse.
But that's not an objective opinion because the only time I tend to have several programs running at the same time is when I'm making web pages, and they're all on the one incarnation of the 'desktop'.