On Friday 08 April 2005 18:02, Anthony Anson wrote:
I've never worked out why you would need more than one 'desktop'.
For activity grouping and to save hunting through taskbar for the window you want. Some people seem to like typing the same command over and over again, but I hate anything repetitious so I do every task in its own window or tab and group them together for the kind of work I'm doing.
On my work machine I have six desktops. Two contain browser windows, each with several tabs; one has a large multi-tabbed shell for testing the software I write, one is reserved for Eclipse running full-screen, one is for mail, IM and BugZilla, and the last one is for lunchtime, where I do stuff unrelated to work. Even running at 1600x1200, putting all this lot on one desktop is a major nightmare (I know - my previous employer was a Windows shop), requiring much guesswork as to which abbreviated taskbar icon is the one I want, when all of them show just an icon and the first few letters of the program name.
-- GT