GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 120204
Manipulate application with all it's windows to other workspace.
Last modified: 2009-03-27 01:53:57 UTC
It would be nice if you somehow could manipulate all windows belonging to an application. This would be especially useful for applications with (potentially) many windows, like GIMP. Mimimising, restoring and moving to another worskpace are the operations I think would be useful.
Many UI and implementation questions here.
For most applications, including the GIMP, this should not require any special feature. The GIMP's image windows should be (but aren't) the main windows of the application and the toolbox and inspector windows should be utility windows. All utility windows without a specific transient parent (which should be all of them) should "follow" the main windows of the application. Thus, if an image is moved from workspace 1 to workspace 2, the utility windows should "move" with it. If there is still an image on workspace 1, such that there are now images on both workspace 1 and 2, the utility windows should appear on both workspaces. Accordingly, the utility windows should not be allowed to move among workspaces independently - they should not have "Move to workspace %d" in their menus, nor should they appear in the pager. To move multiple main windows - say, two images - we just need an interface to multiple window operations, as has been discussed elsewhere. A special interface for "move this app's windows" isn't needed.
See also bug 141171.
Created attachment 59252 [details] mockup I suggest this mockup. There are another menu item in addition to minimize,maximize,scroll up.. : Manage windows in application (for example). When this menu item is chosen, this dialog shows up, listing all windows of a application. The list is multiple choice. You choose what you want then change status combobox (including normal, minimized, maximized and scrolled up) and/or workspace (listing all workspace names). Changes affect immediately. When single selection is chosen, status/workspace is updated properly. If multiple selection, status/workspace is set to -1 (empty).
This would probably better be done with an external script than in-process.