On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me> wrote: > So out of curiosity, what sort of tasks do both you and Robert do if you > don't mind me being nosy?
Oh, ok. Well, I'm an app developer and I have two physical displays. Before I got the second display (nearly 10 years ago now) I was a heavy user of workspaces, but since getting the second screen, I have literally never once used more than one virtual workspace. My typical workflow is like this: left screen contains a maximized gedit window, right screen contains maximized firefox window. Both will be open with many tabs at any given time (firefox displaying API reference docs, and gedit editing various files for my current project). Any non-maximized window, such as empathy chat window or a terminal or whatever, goes onto the left screen. I never, ever need to minimize anything because if there's ever anything that I don't want to look at, I just bring gedit to the front and everything else disappears. Also, I should mention that the bottom 20% of my gedit window is a terminal (thanks to gedit-plugins), but I also frequently have a couple other terminals open as well. The terminal inside gedit is used almost exclusively for launching my app (and running it's test suite), while the other terminal windows are for compiling (so they can be easily hidden behind gedit). Typically also my terminal windows will be tabbed, because I'll start a long compile going in one, then open a new tab to do something else, and then whenever I do something that takes more than 30 seconds to complete I start a new tab in order to continue working. Hope that makes sense. ;-) In terms of the overall vision of the new Gnome Shell, I'm really enamored with it. I've *always* thought of the taskbar as something clunky and I'm glad to see it go. Way way back before I could afford a computer capable of running GNOME, I used to really like the Blackbox WM (I'm talking GNOME 1.x days here). I'm a minimalist and I like things to be as simple as possible. Blackbox has no taskbar and no minimize button! Funny how we've come full circle with that ;-) -- http://exolucere.ca _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
