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Bug 638463 - Gesture based workspace switching
Gesture based workspace switching
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
: 651243 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 691387
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-01-01 18:00 UTC by Giovanni Campagna
Modified: 2013-08-26 22:55 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Giovanni Campagna 2011-01-01 18:00:48 UTC 
I just discovered that in the overview you can switch workspace by dragging the background.
I believe that this is just... cool! but IMHO it still has two problems:

1) it is not advertised enough: I've been using/testing gnome-shell for a long time, and yet discovered this only today.
2) if there is a single maximized window, the available space for workspace dragging is very limited

So I propose to add some space above windows, that is part of the workspace view, but cannot be filled by windows.
Then we could fill this space with something like <<<< >>>>, making it clear that is a sort of sliding bar for workspace switching, alternative to the fixed switcher below.
Comment 1 drago01 2011-01-24 09:57:53 UTC 
See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635034 should atleast fix 2).
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2013-01-09 09:39:21 UTC 
*** Bug 651243 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Allan Day 2013-08-26 22:55:30 UTC 
It would be good to have a more discoverable way to drag between workspaces. At the same time, we are constrained by the need to give as much space to the window thumbnails as possible. As such, I don't think that the proposed fix here is going to work.

Feel free to come up with alternative solutions, of course.