GNOME 3.0 Shell: Workspaces

GNOME Shell screencast showing how new workspaces can be added in the overlay mode, how existing windows can be moved between workspaces, and how new applications and documents can be launched on a particular workspace by being dragged there. While clicking an item launches it and exists the overlay mode (as shown in the second video), dragging an item to a workspaces launches it, but keeps the overlay mode open.

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Science & Technology

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• gnome

[arakitai]

Every couple of years someone comes up with a *revolutionary* menu based add-on for an O/S. Invariably it fails. Bottom line: menus are a great way of saving space, (say, like on a 320x200 monochrome EGA monitor,) but they don't allow users to visualize diddly squat.

Smart programmers understand how abstraction layers work. They understand the balance between usability and flexibility.

This is gonna fail my friends...

[heydude09876]

needs a white theme or transparrent theme with a background

[ahbahpuh]

@GzeroCSD of course i tried it.

It turned to be slighltly more usable since that, but it still sucks ass. And it still works very slow on my GF 8800gtx (it's ok on 8600gt at my job though).

The only good thing is the application launcher in overlay mode, I would like to have something similar in legacy gnome (gnome-do is worse). When I will have enough time I would write new one, with ideas from gnome-do, gnome-shell and chrome (for things like sudo, etc).

[GzeroCSD]

@ahbahpuh have you ever tried it? at first i have a bad opinion too about gnome shell but after trying it i could tell you that is simply amazing :)

[firecad2006]

i like but i dont like the side bar it takes up like fourth of the screen

[ahbahpuh]

Unusable piece of shit. You must be doing nothing on your pc, if you've found out this crap rocked.

[skaiuoquer]

It's awesome.

I've been using it for weeks, on my work computer, at home . . It just rocks.

I love Compiz, but I can see GNOME users getting into this.