Don't know whether to be amused, amazed, impressed, appalled or embarrassed! I almost never have more than three or four apps open at once, and then almost always each one on separate virtual desktops. This is on a 19 inch screen.
I usually have Firefox permanently open on one desktop and then move to others when not using it. Sometimes multiple instances of Firefox on different desktops. But everything else loads so fast it doesn't seem worth the clutter to keep more open than are really needed. They all start from the bottom menu bar in Gnome or a right click and pick in Fluxbox. If writing I use OpenOffice if its small, or Lyx if its large and structured, or sometimes a text editor - either Kate, or more often lately Geany, if it is going to have to be submitted as html. Quite often a terminal which does lots of useful stuff, but I don't feel the need to have it open all the time unless writing bits of awk. Rev usually on its own or with Geany, because until the last revision and the improved editor, I preferred writing in Geany. Geany is very nice - Windows version too, if you have not tried it. Perhaps it depends if you have the luxury of just picking one thing and doing it to the exclusion of almost everything else? Probably many of you don't. Or maybe it has to do with hating having apps and documents stacked up one behind the other. I simply cannot stand this. If it were possible, I'd use three desktops for the different bits of the Rev IDE to avoid this. Well, you can, but only with Fluxbox, not with Gnome. As it is I have six virtual desktops and they are often all filled with documents which keeps things under control and not one behind the other. In Gnome its easy to add a few more desktops on the fly if the need arises. If I have to do editing of images as part of a project, then I open up Gimp or whatever, get it done on a separate desktop, and then close the app. If using Gnome, Nautilus is very slow on well filled folders, and I often use xfe, which opens instantly and is very fast. PCManFM is also a nice file manager. How interesting it is to find how very differently other people work, and how different their ideas of usability are. OSNews some time ago invited people to submit screenshots of their desktops, and they were all strikingly different. I guess one size does not fit all. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-OFF-TOPIC--How-many...-tp22560973p22565810.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution