Bug 707683

Summary:	switching workspaces is now really slow
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	James Antill <james.antill>
Component:	gnome-shell	Assignee:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	maxamillion, otaylor, samkraju, walters, walters
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Description James Antill 2011-05-25 17:23:15 UTC

Description of problem:

 In gnome-panel I had a little box which showed three workspaces, I could click on workspace and move to it within about 0.5 of a second. This was a one step operation. In gnome-shell I have to:

1. Move the mouse to the top left.

2. Wait for it to do the "cute" window scaling animations.

3. Move the mouse to the far right.

4. Wait for the workspace list animation to pop the workspaces out.

5. Click on the workspace I want.

6. Realize that I've moved.

7. Click on a random window in the new workspace.

...this seems to take 5-10 seconds, which is such a significant hit that I've now moved to trying to use only two workspaces ... but it's still horrible.
 Is there a way to make moving the mouse to the right show the workspaces (maybe "just" the workspaces)?

 Is there some other workaround, is anyone looking at fixing some/all of this UI?

Comment 1 Colin Walters 2011-05-25 18:10:44 UTC

You can use Ctrl-Alt-Up and Ctrl-Alt-Down to switch too.

Comment 2 James Antill 2011-05-25 19:21:19 UTC

I tried that, but it didn't work ... it's possible I de-configured those keybindings with gnome-panel in F13 (IIRC I only used C+A+Left/Right), but searching for "key" in applications brings up nothing so I can't check undo.

Comment 3 Colin Walters 2011-05-25 19:29:44 UTC

Yeah, we inherit these settings form GNOME 2; they're under System Settings->Keyboard->Shortcuts.

Comment 4 Owen Taylor 2011-05-25 20:29:56 UTC

I'm going to be a little aggressive here and close this bug, since I don't think Red Hat bugzilla is an appropriate place to discuss GNOME Shell design. You may want to browse the bugs already filed in bugzilla.gnome.org and see if there specific issues that you think that should be filed there that aren't already.

My advise would be one of the other of:

 - Just Alt-Tab to the app you want, and ignore the desktop it's on. (I know, this works less well, if you have 6 workspaces all with 4 terminals on them; that's not really our primary use case...)

(Two bugs that would improve this - the workspace click targets don't extend full to the right - that is already in bugzilla. And then also avoid the two step animation that we have currently. Just filed that as https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651092)

 - Slam the mouse to the right of the screen, while at the same time hitting super (windows key), then click on the workspace you want