One Hundred Papercuts

Make workspace switcher more usable

Bug #420468 reported by LK
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One Hundred Papercuts
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Bug Description

I'm not sure how many people use Workspaces in day to day use. I find it difficult & annoying to think of switching among them despite using Linux for more than 8 years. Switching to me feel like getting up from your table and then go to another one but you don't know what you left where. People coming from Windows don't get this at all.

Despite all this, I love it because it looks good :) on Panel. It came to my mind why not make it 'look & behave' like tabs. We use them in browsers, file managers (nautilus), editors... why not Desktop. The visual change will probably make immediate difference to it's adoption by more users where even the newbies can understand what it means.

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yurik81 (yurik81) wrote :

I fully agree that the workspace switcher is not very usable. I'd add that when the windows are minimized, then the workspace switcher behaves as if the workspace is empty.

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to make Ubuntu better. Since what you submitted is not really a bug, or a problem, but rather an idea to improve Ubuntu, you are invited to post your idea in Ubuntu Brainstorm at http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ where it can be discussed, voted by the community and reviewed by developers. Thanks for taking the time to share your opinion!

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote :

Thank you for bringing this bug to our attention. However, a paper cut should be a small usability issue , in the default Ubuntu 9.10 install , that affects many people and is quick and easy to fix. So this bug can't be addressed as part of the project.

Its a suggestion not a bug/papercut

For further info about papercuts criteria , pls read > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut

Don't worry though, This bug has been marked as "invalid" ONLY in the papercuts project.

Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status: New → Invalid
Changed in ubuntu:
status: New → Invalid
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