[5497] in testers
Re: Workspaces are DIFFERENT in GNOME 2.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jun 17 19:03:45 2003
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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Date: 17 Jun 2003 19:03:38 -0400
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 17:48, Bill Cattey wrote:
> I agreed to let the auto-convert stuff try and convert my configs.
> (They were pretty vanilla anyway.)
>
> Unfortunately, the new way workspaces work is not the same as the way
> old workspaces worked.
>From the system release notes:
<li>Viewports are no longer supported (workspaces still are)</li>
"Viewports" are when you have a geometrically arranged set of views into
a big huge desktop. "Workspaces" are totally independent, like
different pages of a book. (In both cases, of course, some of your
windows are "sticky" and appears in all workspaces or viewports.) In
the name of usability, GNOME 2 has done away with viewports. This is a
widely criticized decision, but it didn't seem like justification for
staying at GNOME 1 or implementing a local change to bring them back.
