On 10/16/07, Andy Gimblett
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 04:22:17PM +0300, Valery V. Vorotyntsev wrote:
1) Fixed number of workspaces is too inflexible and somewhat ugly, IMO.
What about creating workspaces by demand, instead? The same way `ion' does to workspaces or screen to its "windows".
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When I say "you can easily only care about the ones with contents" I mean: using the dynamicLog and RotView contrib modules, I see and move about in a list of the workspaces with things in them, which grows if I send something to a new workspace, and shrinks if I empty a workspace - so I have the appearance of a constantly growing and shrinking set of workspaces. Their names happen to be in the range 0-9 but that range could be made bigger. In practice I never need more than 9, but the possibility is there. It really is a lot like having them created/disposed of on demand, and works quite seamlessly for me at least. It's definitely the closest thing to virtual desktop perfection I've yet experienced.
Oh, thank you. I'll try these modules. And I have a strong suspicion the desired functionality is already there. :)
(I believe there's also a way to assign names to workspaces, though I haven't felt the need to try it out. That might be one possible advantageous side-effect of on-demand workspaces, but OTOH, thinking of my wmii days, having to think of names for workspaces would probably slow me down. ;-) )
I don't have such an experience. Ordinal number (up to 4)) are good enough for me. Thanks again! -- vvv