Now with dynamically allocated desktops is easy to expand to new projects, or on to side distractions without having to close old projects or manually add another desktop. The problem was that with lots of virtual desktops the pager in the taskbar got really small and I ended up putting it in the dashboard like it is in Gnome 3. I’d put one project per virtual desktop to organize things (activities seemed like overkill for what I needed). I used to have multiple sheets open with a word processor and just alt-tab them back and forth. This is why the single key press to text search my applications rather than mousing through a popup menu in the taskbar is a nice feature. I used to hide the taskbar (it would give 2 – 3 more rows on the sheet) and use ‘alt tab’ to move between programs, or have them on separate virtual desktops.
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I have a lot of large spreadsheets and being able to full screen them to see more of a sheet just makes life easier (so does zooming out till my eyes bleed). The window management paradigm matches my workflow pretty well, although not perfect.
Now I just push the win key, and then start typing what I want and it narrows the main menu for me – its a lot quicker and requires no work to setup. The largest group is that middle group which makes it inefficient to make favorites for all of them, and time consuming to make a menu devoted to them so I don’t have to multiple menus deep to find them. Like most people I have programs I use all the time, ones I use daily, and those I seldom to never use. Previously I had to make icon favorites, or bother with organizing the menu tree so that things were quick to find and click. In addition to having a large go to space to get an overview of everything I appreciate the automatic text entry to search for applications. When I’m going application hunting I might as well use the whole screen rather than stare at a small pop-up menu tree in the bottom left or top right corner. I can tell I’m in the minority around this site but I like the dashboard-like application menu. I switched from KDE to Gnome 3 once Fedora 15 was released and haven’t looked back.