Description of problem: One cannot use the workspace switcher applet in the lower panel to move windows. Without desktop effects one can left click on a thumbnail of a window in the workspace switcher and drag it to another workspace; upon releasing the left button the actual window will be moved to a new workspace. With desktop effects on one can drag the window, but it won't be moved. Furthermore, there is no "Move to Another Workspace..." option in the title bar left-click options menu when desktop effects are on like there is when there are no effects. This means that the only way to move a window is to drag the window over the edge and rotating the workspace cube. This is very awkward if the target workspace is more than one away. I think that 4 and 5 might be Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): compiz-0.0.13-0.32.20060817git.fc6 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. enable desktop effects 2. 3. Actual results: moving a window using the workspace switcher doesn't work Expected results: Additional info:
The workspace switcher has become unusable in FC6. I have desktop effects off, in fact I've removed compiz and beryl from my system to see if the workspace switcher would go back to working the way it did in FC5 and earlier, that didn't help. The problem is that selecting a window in the FC6 version of workspace switcher causes the icon to expand in size so that it's much bigger than the workspace windows, as a result it's very difficult to drag that icon into a different workspace, sometimes it's impossible. I have two suggestions to fix the workspace switcher, 1) The simplest thing is to return to the old version of the applet, it was simple and useful. 2) If you really feel that you need to add useless eye candy then do it as follows. a) Expand the icon when you first click on it. b) Then shrink it to a small rectangle as soon as the mouse moves, it should be no more than half the size of the individual workspace windows. By shrinking it down when you are dragging it you'll make it easy to drop it into a workspace window.
The big dragging window icon issue is something that was added to upstream GNOME in 2.16, I believe, so that's a seperate issue and should probably be reported upstream. Anyway, on the compiz + workspace switcher awkardness, compiz also breaks the ability to use the mouse wheel over the workspace switcher and switch workspaces. I think this is seperate from the "Compiz should have workspaces instead of viewports" bug, because if the workspace switcher were patched to be more aware of compiz these wouldn't be issues.
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