On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 09:06 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
Surely any half decent virtual desktop system provides you with some sort of clue what's running on which desktop in the desktop selection pane doesn't it? Certainly I wouldn't use one that didn't as there are so many excellent ones that do.
Well yes and no.
The standard one in Ubuntu is workspace switcher, which only gives shaded boxes to represent open windows. This is fine until you have many similar size windows open.
I have seen other desktop pagers that show a proper thumbnail image of the desktop contents. But theses are so small that again sometimes it is hard to tell what's where. Any bigger and they would start using too much screen estate.
I like this 3ddesktop thing because it uses no screen real-estate and is only a key-press away.
That said one feature I like on workspace switcher is the ability to move windows between desktops by dragging them on the switcher panel, so I have left that running as well, it only uses a small amount of the taskbar panel.