GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 734434
RFE: show workspaces preview for all monitors
Last modified: 2014-08-07 15:42:56 UTC
when using multiple monitors, even though the `workspaces-only-on-primary` bool setting is disabled, the workspaces preview is only showing workspaces from the primary monitor it would be nice have a drawer previewing the workspaces of a monitor on that monitor itself; existing workspaces preview on the primary monitor should not change instead you'd see another preview drawer on each additional monitor, each previewing workspaces for that monitor
the issue and possible fix was briefly discussed with 'andy' on #gnome-shell
(In reply to comment #1) > the issue and possible fix was briefly discussed with 'andy' on #gnome-shell that is 'aday' not 'andy', sorry some updates from IRC: """ That code is mostly in workspaceThumbnail.js and partially in overviewControls.js """
There's some discussion on bug 652580 - basically so far no one has come up with a solution that is not one of: - have separate switchers on each monitor: bad because it implies that workspaces worked per monitor rather than globally (e.g. you cannot have workspace 3 on monitor 1 and workspace 1 on monitor 2) - show all monitors in the existing workspace switcher: doesn't work very well with different monitor sizes, more than two, vertical/L-shaped layouts *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 652580 ***
Florian, thanks for setting the duplicate state; I had missed the other bug. Yet, I think workspaces *already* work on a per-monitor assumption a I don't see complaints with that: we scroll up/down workspaces and create/delete workspaces from all monitors at the same time. FWIW I'd prefer a workspaces previewer on each monitor showing only the workspaces on that monitor.