Feature request : All taskbar icons on all desktops

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Feature request : All taskbar icons on all desktops

Postby pixx » 20.05.2005 17:01:00

Hi,

A feature I miss alot from Gnome virtual desktops is the option ot have all tasks in the taskbar, no matter what desktop you are on.

Example:
    I am in desktop 1 and have taskbar icons for all windows, regardless which desktop they are on.

    Say I click on Firefox, whick is always in desktop 3, Dexpot switches to desktop 3 and focuses on Firefox.

    Now I am in D3, in the taskbar, I click on Putty which is in D1, Dexpot switches to D1 and focuses on Putty.


The advantage of something like this is that you can more or less use your desktop like if there weren't virtual desktops. My wife for example is always messing my desktops around and trying to find applications. this avoids that problem entirely, especially using your very smart rules, which I now very much miss on Gnome :)

The same can be applied to the alt-tab switching although Dextab does that.

Thanks in advance for your attention.

Best,

Philippe.

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Re: Feature request : All taskbar icons on all desktops

Postby aimed » 29.08.2006 11:29:19

pixx wrote:Hi,

A feature I miss alot from Gnome virtual desktops is the option ot have all tasks in the taskbar, no matter what desktop you are on.


I second this.

The same funcionality is in KDE also. Please add this to the Dexpot and the donation is guaranteed!

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Aim

Igor

Re: Feature request : All taskbar icons on all desktops

Postby Igor » 31.08.2006 13:34:30

pixx wrote:A feature I miss alot from Gnome virtual desktops...
...
The advantage of something like this is that you can more or less use your desktop like if there weren't virtual desktops.


My opinion, as a Linux user, that you got a bit wrong this "feature", which
may be considered a bug. In KDE you can switch it off so you don't see
all the windows in all the workspaces. Now, the question is:

Why do you need virtual workspaces if in each of them you want to see every window?

You want it just to see vw switching when you focus a window? That's the
same effect if you had only one workspace. I think that this feature exists
as a backward compatibility with defaut windows desktop. The whole point
of vw is to separate applications by thier logical use. I have developer
tools on first, device upload/download tools on second, putty and winamp
on third and on fourth thunderbird and firefox with webmail. Everything
sorted out and each workspace has at most 4-5 windows. Altogether would
make 16-20 windows in one taskbar! Work in *that* environment.

Best regards,
Igor


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