Bug#648394: gnome: allow workspaces allocation in a static way

[Tjeerd Pinkert]

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I agree fully with the author of this bug. Static workspaces, quick
launch buttons, applets etc. as one used to have in the Gnome 2 panel
should in my oppinion be supported by default before the Gnome 3 desktop
can move on to Stable release.

The standard reply that it will not be supported because of a religious
kind of desktop philosophy that must be adhered to according to the
Gnome authors, will in my opinion not work for many people who are used
to years of Gnome 2 with an in my opinion very well working panel and
desktop philosophy attached.

To add my whishlist then:
- - ability to move stuff around in the top panel bar.
- - ability to remove stuff from the top panel bar.
- - ability to add things like a desktop switcher applet and window list
applet (these do not have to be applets but I liked the functionality)
- - ability to run one's own WM (always had sawfish with the handy close
button on the left of the window)

I think I will get used to the visual "bling bling" of the new thing but
the basic behaviour of Gnome 2 should be there and relatively easily to
access (or even copied from one's Gnome 2 configuration?)

off topic:
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The reason I reply to this, after an unheeded update of Testing my
desktop looks and feels very different to what I was used to the last
approx. >6 years. This has taken now already three afternoons of my
valuable (fortuanately holiday) time to sort out that there is no choice
to change the behaviour as far as the Gnome team is concerned.
Very disappointing because Gnome was actually the first properly working
and easily configurable desktop environment that I encountered on Linux
and I have stuck to it almost from the beginning (just as the Debian
distro, good work!).

yours,


Tjeerd Pinkert
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