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Bug 651317 - Implement workspace bars to limit alt-tab
Implement workspace bars to limit alt-tab
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 621287
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: extensions
3.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-05-28 10:36 UTC by Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
Modified: 2011-11-09 14:34 UTC
See Also:
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Description Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy 2011-05-28 10:36:52 UTC 
I'd like to introduce the "workspace bar" concept. Alt-tab shows windows from current workspace and surrounding ones bound by workspace bars.

So if we have three workspaces and put a bar after the second, when alt-tab in the first two workspaces, only windows from two workkspaces are shown. When we're in the third one, alt-tab only shows windows from the third.

These bars can be added/removed in overview mode, workspace panel.

I think this is helpful when I need to keep alt-tab limited within a few workspaces, but not want to close applications I have in other workspaces. Think of a group of workspaces as a workflow, and one has to follow multiple workflows depends on the time of the day.
Comment 1 Jeremy Nickurak 2011-11-03 01:23:26 UTC 
Related to, possibly dupe of, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621287
Comment 2 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy 2011-11-03 01:38:57 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Related to, possibly dupe of, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621287

Yeah, you may want to make it dup of that bug. The only difference here is I extend from current workspace to more than one contiguous workspaces.
Comment 3 Jeremy Nickurak 2011-11-09 14:34:57 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 621287 ***