[5502] in testers
Re: Workspaces are DIFFERENT in GNOME 2.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Tue Jun 17 20:06:41 2003
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu, aurora@mit.edu
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Date: 17 Jun 2003 20:01:59 -0400
Ah. I've suggested some prose to Heather for the user release notes
along these lines.
-wdc
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 19:03, Greg Hudson wrote:
> 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.
>
