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mzur / gnome-shell-wsmatrix

GNOME shell extension to arrange workspaces in a two-dimensional grid with workspace thumbnails
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[FEATURE REQUEST] Expo view #282

Open JE-Amouel opened 4 months ago

JE-Amouel commented 4 months ago

Hi, thank you for this beautiful extension which greatly improves the workflow, especially when it comes to managing multiple workspaces, it's true that the gnome overview is very classy, ​​but when it comes to trying to managing multiple workspace is not easy, sometimes we have several windows scattered across several workspace and when it comes to finding them, the task becomes very annoying, and that's where workspace matrix comes to help us, I use the super+w shortcut a lot to have a great view of my workspaces, but it's difficult to find all the applications at first glance, especially those that are minimized, that's why I wanted to suggest the possibility that each workspace grid could display an overview of their respective content.

just some references: Expo and Overview

cinnamon-panels-in-expo-and-overview_01

THANK YOU.

mzur commented 1 month ago

Thanks for the idea. I can't implement new features for this extension but I'll leave this open in case someone else wants to pick it up.

JE-Amouel commented 1 month ago

for the moment I solved this by using Forge, since Forge applies a mosaic window management system, and ws-matrix only displays the overview of the workspace, I can see it practical all my windows like in exhibition mode, the problem is just the windows minimized.

but would it be possible to at least have an option to change the preview mode!? I would like to go from popup to immersive, (a bit like coverflow) with desoption to define the level of blur of the background.