Comment 151 for bug 933776
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| John Lea (johnlea) wrote Re: [regression] scale/spread: "Initiate Window Picker for All Windows" does not show all windows. It shows only windows from curent workspace. | #151 |
@desgua; that's because it is the current implementation, and people generally don't comment if they are happy with the status quo.
We had *a lot* of requests from the community to make the change described in bug #689733, so this debate is really is 6 of one, half a dozen of another.
If we were to change the behaviour around to what it was before bug #689733 was implemented I guarantee we will have an equal number of people complaining that "I use workspaces to segment tasks/areas of life/contexts, for example I have one workspace for personal stuff I use in my lunch break, another workspace I use for work, and another workspace dedicated to the report I am working on. I use workspaces so that I can focus on the task at hand, please don't always display windows from other workspaces that I am not currently using."
The issue is that there are several valid different ways of using workspaces, and we don't want to make a change that will inconvenience all the users who requested that we make the change described in bug #689733 in the first place.
This is why this bug requests that this behaviour is made configurable in System Settings:
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"- In the short term what we can do is expose this option in 'System Settings / Keyboard / Shortcuts'. We can add two new actions to this panel:
'Spread all windows on the current workspace' (default setting: Super+W)
and
'Spread all windows on all workspaces' (default setting: Disabled)
and then it will be easy for users to choose the behaviour that suites them best."
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Can you see any alternative means of making all classes of workspace users happy without introducing this configuration option?