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Bug 647773 - do away with the 'move to other workspace' submenu
do away with the 'move to other workspace' submenu
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 726352
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
: 745635 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-04-14 13:47 UTC by Matthias Clasen
Modified: 2015-03-05 12:05 UTC
See Also:
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Description Matthias Clasen 2011-04-14 13:47:40 UTC 
Submenus are even less popular than menus in general, these days, and the move to a fixed workspace' pattern doesn't really work with the dynamic workspaces we have now. What I would really like to have instead (as it is almost always what I want) is 'Move to a new workspace'.
Comment 1 Florian Müllner 2011-04-14 13:50:16 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> 'Move to a new workspace'.

Technically that would be implemented as 'Move to the last (empty) workspace', right?
Comment 2 Lapo Calamandrei 2011-04-14 13:52:43 UTC 
+1 for killing that submenu.
Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2011-04-14 14:12:34 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > 'Move to a new workspace'.
> 
> Technically that would be implemented as 'Move to the last (empty) workspace',
> right?

I assume, yes.
Comment 4 Lapo Calamandrei 2011-04-14 14:48:17 UTC 
"Move to the last workspace" should be a good wording
Comment 5 Florian Müllner 2011-04-14 14:53:50 UTC 
(In reply to comment #4)
> "Move to the last workspace" should be a good wording

Would it? Once the window has been moved, the workspace becomes the pen-ultimate workspace :-)
Comment 6 Giovanni Campagna 2011-04-14 16:35:41 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> Submenus are even less popular than menus in general, these days, and the move
> to a fixed workspace' pattern doesn't really work with the dynamic workspaces
> we have now. What I would really like to have instead (as it is almost always
> what I want) is 'Move to a new workspace'.

Are we sure we want to do that?
I personally use a fixed workspace layout, and find it useful, from time to time. Given that the window menu is not intended for normal use (it's very undiscoverable, now that windows don't have icons), I think it makes sense to keep some corner case features there.
Comment 7 Florian Müllner 2014-04-26 14:19:52 UTC 
It's a bit incidental, but Jasper's patch set to move the window menu into the shell removes the submenu.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 726352 ***
Comment 8 Florian Müllner 2015-03-05 12:05:07 UTC 
*** Bug 745635 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***