On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 01:58:32PM -0500, Nick LeRoy wrote:
On 9/21/2010 8:34 AM, Oliver Kullmann wrote:
I guess at home I have 10 windows open per virtual desktop (using the maximal number 20 of them). I can't imagine that such possibilities of dragging windows around in the pager will ever be useful for me (sure, who knows), while it might cause windows suddenly to "disappear".
I can't imagine how such a workspace could possibly be useful.
How can you remember what is on 20 different desktops each of which might have 10 applications, for 200 total applications running at the same time?
You must spend more time launching FINDING stuff than it would take to relaunch it.
Oh, hey, I'm not very different. I run with 12 virtual desktops, each of which has it's own set of applications running in it. One for casual web browsing, one for reading email, one for general software development, .... When I want to check my email, I switch to the appropriate desktop. OTOH, I also tend to like machines with a lot of RAM to feed my lunacy.
It's also useful to impress windows users. I once had central university administrators(!) in my office, they wanted to instruct me on how to handle their timetabling system, and I couldn't resist, didn't just switch from one virtual desktop to the other, but, using the mouse wheel, scrolled quickly through all of them --- that glitter of really quite a few windows showing up and disappearing created quite some amazement (I think a windows user can be characterised as treating single windows like heavy stones, which must be moved around with great force, effort, pain and caution), and left them with the impression I must be a man of unbelievable mental powers, in order to manage such a storm of windows. So there are some practical uses of computer science. Oliver -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org