On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 07:37:50PM +0100, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
As well as being a bit of eye candy it actually serves a useful purpose to me. Often I forget which virtual desktop I left one of the many apps I tend to have open and so end up switching through all of them. I know there is a setting somewhere to allow the taskbar in gnome to show all open apps. but with so many open it gets too cluttered.
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.
On Linux I use xfce whose virtual deskto pane shows a miniaturised version of the actual dektop and on Windows 2000 I run PowerDesk whose virtual desktop does exactly the same. The only system I run where this isn't true is my work Solaris system where we are still using CDE which just provides a pane of buttons for changing desktops. However even there I have them named so there's one button which says "Mail/News" for example, which (surprise!) goes to the desktop where I have my mail and news programs running.