The message 200504082026.03259.gt@pobox.com from Graham gt@pobox.com contains these words:
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
Not acquainted with this term.
and to save hunting through taskbar for the window you want.
Nor this concept.
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.
Sounds untidy to me. I think I'd soon be lost amongst it.
On my work machine I have six desktops.
I'm not greedy: I have one for each OS, and ATM, one OS on one machine, and the rest are in trays in (or not in) another, so effectively, one at a time.
Two contain browser windows, each with several tabs;
Sorry - tabs? I have two browser icons on the taskbar, and several more which can be conjured from directories if needed.
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.
I can understand the last. But I can open any number (FSVO 'any') of panes, and just minimise them until required.
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.
I'd forget which one each was on...
Fortunately, the software I test is the mail/news handling program I use, and I don't get to write much of that (a few function icon buttons to date). Still, I'm always using the beta, which now is quite stable. In the early days it used to fall over quite often...
The only time the taskbar becomes a bit cramped is if I'm writing HTML pages, when I might have an HTML editor, two browsers, a text editor, and several graphics programs open at the same time.