On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:16:28 +0300 Dimitar Zhekov dimitar.zhekov@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:51:21 +0100 Nick Treleaven nick.treleaven@btinternet.com wrote:
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:30:25 +1000 Erik de Castro Lopo mle+tools@mega-nerd.com wrote:
Thanks for your work on this. From a very brief look the design looks good but I haven't tested it.
As I think Dimitar mentioned, windows has named rather than numbered workspaces. It would be relatively trivial to rework my patch so that the function that finds the workspace number instead generates a string for the workspace number.
Let me know if you want this and I'll rejig and resubmit the patch.
I suppose so. I've never heard of multiple workspaces on Windows other than by non-standard utilities so any links would be appreciated.
Any NT-system supports "virtual desktops". Win 9x does not.
google site:msdn.microsoft.com Window Station and Desktop Functions, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc817881.aspx
For example, the login screen is on separate desktop, with a higher level of propection that the regular ones; XP "fast user switching" creates per-user window stations, and desktops within them.
Almost no applications support these. For example, if you run FF on two desktops, the 2nd instance will say "FF is already running" and exit. Windows itself does not handle them very well: Task Manager and the Ctrl-Alt-Del window are always displayed on the initial desktop, but the system does not switch to it, and it looks like nothing happened.
OK, thanks. It seems it's not that important to support Windows workspaces.
Regards, Nick