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Bug 336731 - Switcher of number desktops is very fast
Switcher of number desktops is very fast
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: workspace switcher
2.14.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-03-31 13:39 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2007-02-21 20:17 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Patch (684 bytes, patch)
2007-01-07 01:53 UTC, Manu Cornet 		committed Details | Review

Description Sebastien Bacher 2006-03-31 13:39:32 UTC 
That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/36529

"Switcher of number desktops is very fast.

http://librarian.launchpad.net/1836952/PrepinacPloch.png
Screenshot"
Comment 1 Sergej Kotliar 2006-03-31 15:53:21 UTC 
The one above it is too...

Also - I'm sure this happens in many other places around GNOME...
Comment 2 Vincent Untz 2006-03-31 15:59:25 UTC 
Sebastien: so, does it happen with all what-is-the-name-of-this-widget widgets in the whole GNOME desktop? If yes, then I'm not sure that it's here that we should fix it.
Comment 3 Sergej Kotliar 2006-03-31 16:17:35 UTC 
What I think the bug is referring to is that the what-is-the-name-of-this-widget widget perhaps shouldn't be used in this case, when what is needed is a discrete number of workspaces - 1,2,3,4,5,6. Does anyone use more than say 8? Perhaps the widgets should just stop increasing after that? Maybe even 6?
People that are 1337 enough to handle more than 6 workspaces are probably able to open up gconf and set a manual key...
Comment 4 Sebastien Bacher 2006-03-31 17:20:17 UTC 
Vincent, you can set the increment step for the GtkSpinButton widget. It's probably going at this speed by default, but it you range is 500 it can be faster than on a small number of desktops no? :) We could discuss if the default increment should be smaller from GTK though, depending of what we consider as the frequent usecase for it ...
Comment 5 Petr Tomeš 2006-09-22 14:54:25 UTC 
I can confirm this bug on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Dapper Drake (GNOME 2.14.x) and Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft (GNOME 2.16.x). Please fix it.
Comment 6 Manu Cornet 2007-01-07 01:53:43 UTC 
Created attachment 79592 [details] [review]
Patch

Here is a patch for this. With some testing, I figured out that 0.2 was a reasonable increment value in this case.
Comment 7 Vincent Untz 2007-01-14 18:51:10 UTC 
Manu: Thanks!

Sergej: well, I still consider the spin button useful since it helps indicating it's a number that's expected and I'm sure user are using it.
Comment 8 Sebastien Bacher 2007-02-07 18:55:54 UTC 
With that change one click is not enough to change the number of workspace which is pretty confusing. Ubuntu bug about that: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/83334. Is there a way to have the use a 1 step and slow down the acceleration?
Comment 9 Vincent Untz 2007-02-21 20:17:30 UTC 
Sebastien: I put another fix, which should better. And I opened bug 410520 to have GTK+ more helpful here.