> I thought of maybe bringing up adding workspaces on-the-fly but > dropped it when I thought of a person that had no experience with > multiple workspaces say open an application set to create a new > workspace and being annoyed/angered/confused by all of the windows > they just had now being gone, unless something very bright, clear, > bouncing or perhaps all of those was directing them to how to get back > to where they were, at least the first (or first few, unless they > clicked a "go away" thing) times they encountered the 'feature'. I'm > not sure how to idiot/'masses'-proof such a thing. I have a lot of > experience with something happening and it confusing users with my > parents and basically everything new to them on a computer. Even the > bouncing icons on Mac OS X can get left alone go on for days with some > people.
I *think* (not sure) the tab interface I mocked up would work more or less okay in this matter. The fact that a new tab would appear and the old one would lose focus might be enough. It would also be interesting if the new workspace automatically appeared with a different background, so visually it would be very evident that it was not the windows that closed. > Sure by default that top bar isn't in use but I haven't gotten around > to setting up and learning hotkeys for all of my most used > applications so that top bar is basically entirely filled with little > shortcut icons. (I would love to have a place for a bunch of little > launch application buttons not in a menu or in one of those Gnome > drawer applets, almost like a Mac OS X dock, but that fits in with the > default Ubuntu panel setup and if the tabs are chosen, fits in with > that too.) You might want to take a look at those: DockbarX http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=101604 Talika http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Talika+applet?content=118267 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp