On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 19:29 +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote:

Il Saturday 12 April 2008 16:24:14 Carlos E. R. ha scritto:

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The Saturday 2008-04-12 at 15:09 +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote:

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Hi, I spent half an hour searching a way to enable multiple desktops in gnome (openSuse 10.3) but I swear I can't find it :( Where is this setting?

In hiding, so that newbies are kept far away :-p

Add the applet "workspace switcher" to your bar. Once running, right click on preferences and choose the number of workspaces you prefer.

-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.

thanks a lot. It was incredibly well hidden :)

FWIW, I think we'll turn multiple desktops back on by default in 11.0. http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Desktop_Policy -JP -- JP Rosevear Novell, Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

John Andersen wrote:

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:49 AM, JP Rosevear wrote:

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On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 19:29 +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote:

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Il Saturday 12 April 2008 16:24:14 Carlos E. R. ha scritto:

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The Saturday 2008-04-12 at 15:09 +0200, Nico Sabbi wrote:

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Hi, I spent half an hour searching a way to enable multiple desktops in gnome (openSuse 10.3) but I swear I can't find it :( Where is this setting?

In hiding, so that newbies are kept far away :-p

Add the applet "workspace switcher" to your bar. Once running, right click on preferences and choose the number of workspaces you prefer.

-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.

thanks a lot. It was incredibly well hidden :)

FWIW, I think we'll turn multiple desktops back on by default in 11.0.

http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Desktop_Policy

One wonders what ever prompted it to be set to 1 in the first place. Dumbing down a product seems counter productive.

Unfortunately, dumbing-down has become a guiding principle of GNOME. "The typical user doesn't need ... [insert customization setting here]" The problem is, the "typical user" does not have an environment which is 100% "typical"...they have one which is 90%-95% typical, and then a couple non-typical things, which beg for tweaking -- and that's why I stopped using GNOME -- because they kept taking things away from me. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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JP Rosevear pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

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FWIW, I think we'll turn multiple desktops back on by default in 11.0.

Good!

"This was a leftover from SLED 10, where one desktop was felt it would make it easier for people to understand"

Ouch. :-(

Doesn't this go against the Gnome policy of "less is more"? I mean, why give people more choices, it will only make them more confused. :-) Why let people know that linux has more to offer MS windows does, out of the box.

I use 9 workspaces. It is one of the features I like most, specially compared to windows. I use each workspace for different uses: browser here, mail here, logs, openoffice, compilations, translations... everything neatly ordered, not every window clustered in the same display together with 20 more windows. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIA9nntTMYHG2NR9URAoYHAKCRGwLRCQGJT902HozrvM5gU7tlygCeK5hP 9tY7AfuNyFu1QtX3wduDxuk= =1zaq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Basil Chupin wrote:

Carlos E. R. wrote:

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The Monday 2008-04-14 at 14:59 -0400, Ken Schneider wrote:

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JP Rosevear pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

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FWIW, I think we'll turn multiple desktops back on by default in 11.0.

Good!

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"This was a leftover from SLED 10, where one desktop was felt it would make it easier for people to understand"

Ouch. :-(

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Doesn't this go against the Gnome policy of "less is more"? I mean, why give people more choices, it will only make them more confused. :-) Why let people know that linux has more to offer MS windows does, out of the box.

I use 9 workspaces.

It is one of the features I like most, specially compared to windows. I use each workspace for different uses: browser here, mail here, logs, openoffice, compilations, translations... everything neatly ordered, not every window clustered in the same display together with 20 more windows.

Exactly same reason why I use 6 Desktops (in KDE)- a separate desktop for a specific task.

But I have always wondered - but never bothered to ask: are the number of desktops implicitly related to the amount of RAM one has? That is, is each desktop assigned RAM on the basis of (RAM / number of desktops = RAM available for an app. running in any desktop)?

The Unix kernel has no idea of what a "desktop" is. RAM is allocated as demand dictates. Due to the wonders of virtual memory, Even declaring a large array (like 1 million bytes or more) doesn't actually allocate RAM until it's actually used.

Ciao.

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