(snip) > At any rate, it seems the workflow you describe is quite suited to > Gnome. > You could dedicate an entire desktop to a video editing task, and > when you > alt-tab within that desktop, you'd only be shown the windows > dedicated to > that task. If you want to switch to another task, you'd switch to > another > desktop (and if you're an emacs user like me, maybe bind super-n to > "move > to the desktop below"). >
Hi, that would be great if that could work this way. But the problem is that, if you dedicate a workspace to each task, when you click on an application that you don't have opened on the current desktop but have opened on a different workspace (for a different task), gnome-shell moves you away from your current workspace instead of opening a new window of that application. And that breaks this paradigm. Too bad, really! > Although like I said, I don't know the context, so I might be missing > the > mark. > > Awjin > > On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 4:04 PM, Alberto Salvia Novella < > es204904...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > After talking with some GNOME users and developers I have realised > > there's > > a common misunderstanding. > > > > The goal of the GNOME Shell is to focus on one thing at a time, but > > normally when I have multiple windows or tabs opened all are > > related with > > the same task at hand. They are simply different stages of the same > > process. > > > > 0 -> 0 -> 0 -> 0 > > > > If I want for example produce multiple videos, having all those > > windows > > open eases me finishing one video at a time, since I can quickly > > change > > between stages. > > > > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-Minute_Exchange_of_Die) > > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_manufacturing) > > > > So here's the problem: you are confusing finishing things one by > > one with > > visiting the tools one by one. If you really care about focus you > > would > > want to make changes between tools as easy as possible. > > > > Thanks for your attention. > > > > > > > > -- > > Ubuntu-GNOME mailing list > > Ubuntu-GNOME@lists.ubuntu.com > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > > mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-gnome > > > > -- Ubuntu-GNOME mailing list Ubuntu-GNOME@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-gnome