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RensAlthuis / vertical-overview

Gnome has had vertically stacked workspaces for a long time. The Gnome 40 update unfortunately made the switch to a horizontal layout. A choice that many Gnome users disagree with. This extension completely replaces the new Gnome overview with something that resembles the old style.
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Static background in both overview and normal view #45

Closed bmenant closed 3 years ago

bmenant commented 3 years ago

This is a suggestion/feature-request.

Preamble: I’ve enabled the two options Static Background and Hide scaling workspaces (version 46a092588a7fecbbf244f1cf58c2615ba9c60575) and I’m very happy with this setting in overview mode: the full-frame static background kind a stabilizes the whole screen while moving from a workspace to another. I feel it reduces eyestrain with intensive use of multiple workspaces.

Problem: the Static Background option only applies to the overview mode. As a matter of fact, in normal view mode, the background moves together with applications windows. It comes with a sort of flash when you move from a workspace to another directly (by-passing the overview mode), which is not so pleasant to the eye. Also, it’s inconsistent with the overview mode.

Suggestion: I’d like the Static Background option to also fix the background in normal mode. Alternatively, I’d like to have an extra option to fix the background in normal mode (to accommodate users who prefer current behavior).

Final word: thank you so much for this extension!

bmenant commented 3 years ago

Oops , it’s actually a duplicate of #28