On Jan 26, 2008 9:05 AM, Brendan G moldybeats@gmail.com wrote:
I think 2 or 3 desktops makes sense in certain situations. Say you're running something that really 'wants' all the available screen space (like Photoshop)... or, on the other side, if you have 10 instances of BitTorrent going on, it's nice to give them their own desktop.
But generally, I don't think they really enhance productivity. I always disable them, personally.
It's much easier to keep programs of various sorts grouped in to viewable segments than having to manually minimize and maximize windows as you work, or just leaving a ton of windows open and cycling though them. In one VD you can have your music player open with the library available to navigate and in another VD you can have a full screen web browser open and in yet another you can have your word processor open where you are writing a report for college (or where ever) and that's three VDs in use and organized with no window swapping. each screen can stay just how you like it and no matter how much work and other programs you run on another VD your music player and browser are right where you left them, and uncluttered. With a simple keycombo I can switch between VDs faster than cycling though a bunch of windows to find the one I want because I know what the last active window in each VD should be. Once you pick up on separating your workflows by VDs you will increase productivity because you aren't interfering with one project with the windows of another.
Jon.