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Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)Posted Nov 13, 2011 17:20 UTC (Sun) by deepfire (subscriber, #26138)In reply to: Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) by RogerOdle Parent article: Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register)
> I found a particular advantage to using Gnome 3 as an engineer which is
> probably useful at some level for system administrators. I am developing > an embedded system that combines multiple computers that I monitor at the > same time with VNC. With a simple movement of the mouse, I can shrink the > screen to the "window selection" mode which lets me watch all of my > computers at the same time. I can select a particular window and zoom in > to a particular machine in a moment.
Gnome 2 (actually, Compiz) had a very very similar feature. It was merely disabled by default. It was called "desktop wall". I /think/ it even was enabled by default at one point.
You'd strike a key combination, and you'd be transitioned from a single desktop view to seeing the whole desktop grid, in an animated style.
I found it quite nice at the time, although I didn't use it much.
Where I guess it differs, is that in Gnome 3 you see /just/ the apps you started, instead of all the desktops.
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Why GNOME refugees love Xfce (Register) Posted Nov 21, 2011 17:42 UTC (Mon) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]
GNOME 3 with Compiz (either with or without the Unity plugin) still has this feature.
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