Hi; I need some advice. I want to put in a feature request but I am not sure where it should go. Workspace Switcher; Metacity; or Gnome -- whatever ?? For over 2 years now I have been trying to somehow solve the following problem: I want 2 or 3 completely different Desk Top environments. Call them my 'Play' environment and my 'Work' environment. 'Play' is usually a mess, a fun picture for a background; panel full of icons, launchers all over the screen. When I have work to do, I like to work clean. A simple background; sparse panel with only icons for those applications I use often in my work; file launchers for just the files I need for a project; research based bookmarks for frequently used URL's. However, and here is where I get into problems, I want one mailbox for Evolution whether at 'work' or 'play'; a shared 'NoteCase' whether at 'work' or 'play'; and a shared 'tvtimes' to follow breaking news events. No work around seems to get all this. I have tried setting myself up as two different users; I have tried hard and soft linking my mailbox, calandar, todo etc. If I were a programmer, and IDE would kind of do the trick but my work projects are all non-IT. The ideal solution would be to have a cross between a work place switcher; gdmflexiserver; session manager; and, desktop switcher. For example a new applet (which is beyond my abilities to create) that would keep the X windows running; remove the current panels, background and desktop and replace them with what I have chosen for that 'work' or 'play' environment. I would simply have a name for each environment that could be launched as I needed it. I could have the best of both worlds; keeping the applications that I use in both environments alive (same UID); while replacing everything else -- maybe each environment could be password protected. It strikes me that this is not an unusual feature request. Surely many people using computers have two or three compartments to their lives. Commercial artists who want to separate their Gimp setup etc. for work from recreational environments for themselves and their kids; Corporate workers who want to keep their home environment separate from work that they have to do at home; or as in my case, a place to play and a place to work that looks and feels like separate places for work and play. As I started out saying, that's the feature request I want to ask for but I don't know who I should ask it of. -- Regards Bill _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
