I like this idea. It actually solves a problem that I have been having forever. Opening a window on the wrong desktop and then having to move it to another desktop. Or wishing I could have a window open only on two desktops, but not the other two. (i.e. Konsole open on "Programming" and "Virtualization," but not "Multimedia" and "General")<div>
<br></div><div>Tags would make things simple for the Window Management. The algorithm would have to be really good at weeding out superfluous tags, however. I could easily see adding a tag and having only one window open within it. Maybe have a Universal tag that displays windows within all Tags? It would just need to be designed in such a way that it doesn't turn into a kludge. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I also like the idea of the desktop effect grouping the applications. I have this animation that I'm seeing through my minds eye and its really stellar. </div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Chani <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chanika@gmail.com">chanika@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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so I had a crazy idea, and discussed it with lubos and notmart, and completely<br>
forgot to mention it at the bof. I brought it up again today and we ended up<br>
with some other ideas too.<br>
<br>
what I wanted is window tagging. instead of virtual desktops and tabs (tabs<br>
seems to be a workaround for window management not being good enough<br>
anyways) I could just have tags on windows, and have a taskbar that groups by<br>
tag, or have one virtual desktop per tag. perhaps some smart omission of<br>
superfluous tags.<br>
<br>
this could be done in stages: first the ability to manually tag, then session<br>
restore including tags, then virtual desktops automatically following tags<br>
(automatic creation and deletion of desktops would be nice, if done right),<br>
then magical automatic tagging from nepomuk (open a document, hte window gets<br>
the document's tags), perhaps other automatic tagging...<br>
<br>
today I was told that wmii is a window manager that uses tags, so I need to go<br>
look into that.<br>
<br>
we also daydreamed about how nice it would be if you could save and load<br>
partial-sessions consisting of a group of windows and an activity.<br>
<br>
<br>
sebas had an idea for a new kwin effect to show all virtual desktops: instead<br>
of showing them as desktops, show them as groups of windows. as a side-effect<br>
this also avoids the issue of the taskbar showing the wrong stuff because the<br>
taskbar wouldn't be visible ;) he also wanted the ability to drag&drop windows<br>
between desktops from such effects.<br>
<br>
<br>
in hte short term, I think we should add some simple features to make the<br>
current virtual-desktop management more convenient:<br>
-an "add virtual desktop" action in the pager contextmenu<br>
-maybe a way to add/remove them from the desktop grid effect? (yes, I'm<br>
thinking about gnome here)<br>
-errr... I really should've written notes, because i forgot the rest. :)<br>
<br>
comments?<br>
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