Seamless workspace scroller

[Fred]

Binary package hint: compiz

I think that rather than having any number of separate workspaces, you should be able to have one really wide workspace. You could then just move a little to the right or a little to the left. Desktop wallpaper, icons, and gnome panels would remain fixed while you go left or right to view windows.

For Compiz users, this would be represented as a cylinder instead of a cube and you would be able to stop the cylinder anywhere, unlike the cube that restricts you to four preset locations.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thats quite an interesting idea. I would advise you to discuss this upstream with the Compiz developers.

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

Yeah, I think it is an interesting idea.
I actually found it on brainstorm;
* http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/12675/

There is a feature request on it at the Compiz forum.
* http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=9636

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

This sounds like a really great idea but there is actually no way to implement it within the current X11 window manager specifications. Trying to do so would break a lot of things.