GNOME Shell Labeled Workspaces Mockup

WebUpd8 reader Nanley Chery has submitted a very interesting proposal for labeled / tagged workspaces to the GNOME Shell mailing list.

He says that the current dynamic workspaces in GNOME Shell work great in general, but not when the user wants to use each workspace for a different activity. This could be solved by using using labeled workspaces: the user would be able to recognize the purpose of each workspace a lot faster.

Here's how the labeled workspaces would work:

• even when closing all the applications on a workspace, the workspace would still exist after a reboot
• labeled workspaces can be moved around relative to each other

Dynamic workspaces would still exist and they would be displayed under the labeled workspaces. Also, you would be able to easily convert a labeled workspace to a dynamic workspace by simply adding/deleting its label.

More info: Improving Workspaces in GNOME Shell and Labeled Workspace Improvements. This is not an official mockup!


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Unity Quicklists To Add / Remove Workspaces

There's no easy way to modify the number of workspaces in Unity - there is an option in Gconf but that's not exactly user-friendly -, so MrChrisDruif has created an Unity icon (with quicklists) to easily add or remove workspaces rows/columns.

To download and copy the required files to the right locations, copy/paste the following commands in a terminal:

wget http://webupd8.googlecode.com/files/workspaces.tar.gz
tar -xvf workspaces.tar.gz
chmod +x workspaces-shortcuts
mv workspaces.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
sudo mv workspaces-shortcuts /usr/local/bin/

Then, open Nautilus and navigate to ~/.local/share/applications/ (".local" is a hidden directory in your home folder so press CTRL + H to see it) and drag the "Workspaces" icon to the Unity launcher.

That's it!

Credits for the script/quicklists: MrChrisDruif @ AskUbuntu.

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