Bug 982315

Summary: workspaces thumbnails in overview too narrow with large number of workspaces
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jeff Bastian <jbastian>
Component: gnome-shellAssignee: Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 19CC: admiller, fmuellner, otaylor, redhat-bugzilla, samkraju, walters
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Last Closed: 2014-04-28 18:57:43 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Jeff Bastian 2013-07-08 15:55:14 UTC 
Description of problem:
If using a fixed number of workspaces -- either from gnome-tweak-tool or by using the Gnome Classic session -- the gnome-shell overview only shows a few pixels of the workspaces.  The full workspaces are shown with dynamic workspaces.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-shell-3.8.3-3.fc19.x86_64

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set fixed number of workspaces in gnome-tweak-tool
2. hit Super key to activate overview


Actual results:
the workspaces in the overview are only a few pixels wide

Expected results:
the workspaces overview are full miniature views of the workspaces

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jeff Bastian 2013-07-08 15:58:54 UTC 
Created attachment 770556 [details]
overview of workspaces with fixed number
Comment 2 Jeff Bastian 2013-07-08 15:59:39 UTC 
Created attachment 770557 [details]
overview of workspaces with dynamic number
Comment 3 Florian Müllner 2013-07-08 21:58:58 UTC 
This is not an issue of dynamic vs. static workspaces, the position starts to shift off-screen when using more than x workspaces, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694881.
Comment 4 Jeff Bastian 2013-07-09 11:54:06 UTC 
Oh, interesting!  I went back to dynamic and started adding windows to each workspace as it was created and sure enough, the side bar got narrower and narrower with each new workspace until it disappeared completely!
Comment 5 Kevin R. Page 2013-07-16 10:34:32 UTC 
(In reply to Jeff Bastian from comment #4)
> Oh, interesting!  I went back to dynamic and started adding windows to each
> workspace as it was created and sure enough, the side bar got narrower and
> narrower with each new workspace until it disappeared completely!

Yes, I'm seeing this too on a machine upgraded to F19, gnome-shell-3.8.3-3.fc19.x86_64. This configuration has always used dynamic workspaces (or is this known to affect all configs?). Visual switcher disappears down to nothing with a relatively small number of workspaces (9 or 10) but is pretty unusable with just 7 or so as it no longer provides the visual clue it's there for.
Comment 6 Jeff Bastian 2014-04-28 18:57:43 UTC 
This is working correctly now with gnome-shell-3.10.4-2.fc20 in Fedora 20